The Thoughts and Feelings of a Melbourne Person
So much for Microsoft promises, according to El Reg:
The dirty secret is buried deep down in the «Compatibility view» configuration panel, where the «Display intranet sites in Compatibility View» box is checked by default. Thus, by default, intranet pages are not viewed in standards mode.
The icon they’ve selected for standards compliant pages is also [...]
Matt, a friend of mine, paraphrasing a comment on Slashdot:
All the documentation on building the LHC has gone online - at 1600 pages of documentation, it’s easier to build your own LHC than it is to write an OOXML translator.
Roll on September 10th!
So OOXML, the spec that nobody implements, not even Microsoft, and which isn’t even publicly available in its final form has had the four big appeals against it rejected.
A triumph of lobbying, committee stacking, hidden agendas and special interests over common sense and due process. I think ISO has just made [...]
So we have now had a number of appeals from national bodies over the farcical approval of OOXML at the ISO BRM, so hopefully now we’ll get a proper review (and maybe even a final draft) of the standard that not even Microsoft is implementing.
As part of the associated fallout a letter from the Indian [...]
This is wonderful, look what the power behind the Microsoft sign is..
Via Groklaw’s newspicks..
From Techdirt:
Playsforsure was so bad that Microsoft didn’t even use it for its own Zune digital media device. Along with that, Microsoft shut down its failed online music store, and now for the kicker, it’s telling anyone who was suckered into buying that DRM’d content that it’s about to nuke the DRM approval servers that [...]
It appears through a process of elimination of the nearly 30 attendees at the Standard Norway meeting on OOXML the decision to vote yes was made unilaterally by the vice-president of Standard Norway.
When the original attendees could not reach consensus on 8 of the 12 comments (having agreed that 2 were not satisfactorily resolved [...]
Dear Microsoft,
RE: OOXML
Due to massive irregularities in the voting process in ISO, the requirement to use patented media formats such as MP3 and the sheer inappropriateness of using the fast-track process for your massive XML document format OOXML I will not accept it as an agreed ISO standard, even though you managed to con enough [...]
I wonder how many people using Windows have been bitten by this new spyware, as related by the Computer Associates Security Advisor Blog ?
Sears.com is distributing spyware that tracks all your Internet usage - including banking logins, email, and all other forms of Internet usage - all in the name of “community participation.” Every website [...]
After the previous reports of Microsoft stacking standards bodies, Andy Updegrove points out that there is now a far more insidious problem facing the ISO/IEC Standards Committee 34 as a result of its suddenly inflated membership.
The rules of the committee require at least 50% of the ‘P’ status members (not the observing members) return a [...]
