Open Malaysia

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28 August 2007
Microsoft bashed in OOXML shens (and comparing loos)
By Richi Jennings
A digest of blog posts alleging Microsoft improprieties on the ISO ballot for OOXML, including shenanigans in Sweden and Norway.
Computerworld: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/6099

27 August 2007

Open standards dilemma/Technology neutrality in question
By Tech&U Team

The article still got it confused by saying that this Malaysian public sector adoption of open standards is for eventual migration to the open source platform (see first paragraph of the main article).

Anyway, detractors are howling that the Malaysian Government adoption of ODF is against "technology neutrality."

Not so, say open standards advocates.

• Malaysian National Computer Confederation:  "There are many software out there that support ODF, so having an open standard document format will be good for end users to choose the software of their preference."

• Malaysia Open Source Software Alliance: "All companies and organisations in Malaysia can choose to adopt open standards without paying any royalties. This is because standards are not applications, interoperability is guaranteed, and competition is spurred."

Malaysia NST emedia: http://www.emedia.com.my/TECH/Computimes/Highlight/20070827111240/wartrevamp

Malaysia NST Tech&U (Scanned copy below - click image for full view):

24 August 2007
The world's fastest-growing economies reject Microsoft
By Matt Assay
"First it was China. Now India and Brazil. The rout of Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) standardization efforts is now essentially complete. When the world's fastest growing economies reject Microsoft, Microsoft has a problem."
CNet News: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9765759-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

23 August 2007
Microsoft kills its ‘Get the Facts’ anti-Linux site
By Mary Jo Foley
"Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness.  On August 23, Microsoft pulled plug on the 'Get the Facts' site, replacing it with a new Windows Server 'Compare' site.  I heard earlier this year that Microsoft intended to kill off the Get the Facts site. But Microsoft told me, at that time, I should get my facts straight, and that there was no intent to do away with the site."
ZDNet: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/index.php?p=670

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