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.
Guidelines on the corporate governance of ICT developed by Standards Australia have been adopted as an international standard by the ISO (International Standards Organisation).
Lobbying has intensified ahead of Saturday, 29 March, the deadline for Microsoft to convince the world that its Office Open XML (OOXML) specification should be accepted as a formal standard.
The developer of XML and a former ISO committee chair have both claimed that Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML accredited as an international standard in order to forward the company's wider interests.
Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues but Microsoft refuses to admit that ODF has won the document format war.
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Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
The introduction of new ICT technologies triggers a learning process that creates significant innovation across the Australian economy.
Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.
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In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader software has become one of those rare birds in personal computing: a de facto standard that has nothing to do with industry giant Microsoft.
Business process outsourcing has much in common with its smaller sibling IT outsourcing, but there are still some lessons to be learned.
If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
StarOffice 8 is an impressive upgrade of Sun's bargain productivity suite, and a good buy for small and large businesses since it costs a fraction of the price of its main competitor, Microsoft Office 2003.
Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base.
The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.
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