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• Australia abstains on final OOXML vote

  Standards Australia has maintained its "abstain" vote on Microsoft's attempt to attain international standard status for its Office Open XML file format.

• OOXML result: Will it matter in Australia?

  Microsoft's OOXML document format has accrued enough votes for recognition as an international standard, but one observer believes the change will make little difference to users in Australia.

• Australia stalls OOXML vote as NZ scratches head

  With the countdown on to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ballot on OOXML, Australia and New Zealand's representatives are keeping their cards close to their chests on which way they will vote.

• Proprietary past may haunt Microsoft in OOXML vote

  More than 30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) have attended a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva to prepare for a final decision on Microsoft's contentious OOXML document format.

• OOXML result countdown: one day to go

  The International Organisation for Standardisation is expected to announce the results of an Open XML vote on Wednesday.

Blogs (3)

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  APEC and OOXML - both pointless and annoying

  The eyes of the world were on Australia this week as the APEC summit got underway in Sydney, and what they've seen is a city being held under virtual martial law major roads blocked off, police cars outnumbering taxis and snipers openly hanging out on roof tops.

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  Conroy scraps filter blacklist

  Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.

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  Remember the Ala-MIMO

  As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.

Features and Case Studies (8)

• Ignite Sydney sparks up

  Ignite Sydney kicked off its inaugural event last night, with the goal of ending the "death by PowerPoint" presentation style. Twelve presenters took to the stage to take on the unique Ignite format.

• What's the best virtualisation suite?

  Virtualisation is a great way to thin down your datacentres (assuming you can keep VM creep under control). But what's out there? In the first part of this virtualisation feature, ZDNet investigates ...

• Microsoft opens up: Everything you need to know

  The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?

• War rages on over Microsoft's OOXML plans

  What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?

• 2007: How was it for security?

  Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

Reviews (10)

• Removable flash cards continue to shrink

  Companies supporting Secure Digital, a specific format for removable flash memory cards, are working to develop a smaller version of the format for mobile phones, according to sources.

• Samsung D600

  Samsung's D500 was voted the best mobile handset of 2005 by the GSM association. Can the upgraded D600 outdo it in 2006?

• Age has not wearied them

  Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

• CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11.0: Suite deal

  Any suite that contains CorelDraw gets our vote, and the other apps in this package only add to CorelDraw's appeal. Even though Adobe Photoshop is the top image editor in its class, you won't find another suite deal like this one.

• Avoid injury in the DVD standards war

  Personal computing, the Internet, and home entertainment are on a collision course. This could wind up being that wonderful 'synergy' they talk about in those pop-business books, or it could be a train wreck. The events of the PC Expo in New York this week may give us a clue as to which will occur.

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