A ballot on whether to publish the draft standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats, as an International Standard by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has not achieved the required number of votes for approval.http://www.iso.org/iso/newsandmedia/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070
Very few people dares to predict the result of the voting in ISO. Andy Updegrove takes the leaf of his mouth and says: "Microsoft will fail !"
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007090315253367
It won't be long now. In a few weeks you can expect to see OpenOffice.org 2.3 on the street. But witch new features can you expect to find when you get your hands on it ?
This version is what's called a major release. Several new features is revealed here. Lets see now...
First of all, you will find a brand new way of creating charts. You can create very comprehensive charts from a various of data types.
You can find more information about the new charts here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Chart2/Features2.3
The next thing you will find, is the report builder in Base. From now on, it's very easy to create nice reports from your data tables in Base. Read more about the report builder here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SUN_Report_Builder
A very small, but useful new feature is the ability to export a text document as MediaWiki text. If you are writing Wiki text from time to time, I think you will find this little feature very useful.
Extensions are now capable of creating additional settings in OpenOffice.org.
When ?
Well, the release is planned for medio September. Lets hope that the plans hold.
It's official now. Denmark will vote no with (64 pages of) comments. Here is the press release in Danish.
We have won this battle, but the war is not over yet.
I just got an email from Dansk Standard that Denmark will vote no with comments. The 64 pages of comments was obviously too heavy and too important.
Dansk Standard has been under heavy pressure over the last week, because of the Swedish case.
Translater here.
How do you say 'No OOXML, thank you' in your language ?
-please leave a comment.
In Dansh, it's 'OOXML, nej tak'
39644 people has signed the petition so far.
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