At first blush, the irony is inescapable. On one hand, you have Microsoft, the brash--some might say intimidating--software giant; on the other sits a 40-year-old standards-setting organization based ...

A lot has happened since I last wrote about the OpenDocument vs. Microsoft file formats drama that is clearly turning out to be one of the most important beachheads in the computer industry. Shortly ...

As data’s influence on the battlefield grows, the U.S. Army has zeroed in on its cloud capabilities to deliver this critical component of decision making to the edge. To advance this goal, the service ...

WASHINGTON —The U.S. Army Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency announced that Army Enterprise Wickr is now available to a wider audience, and that ECMA is now ...

Joint Service members and civilians participate in Exercise Diamond Saber at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, on June 26, 2019. It's the Army’s only large-scale financial management exercise. (U.S. Army / ...

PARIS — Nov. 22, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will take steps to offer the file format technology behind billions of documents to customers and the industry as an international standard.

The approval of the C# and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) development tools as standards by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) marks a small step forward for Microsoft's .Net ...

More specifically, the Geneva-based organization formed a Technical Committee to produce a formal standard of the work that is compatible with Office Open XML formats. That committee will take on ...

I would like to respond to Mr. Frank Molnar and his comments regarding a lack of standards around .NET and the inability of hobbyist developers to work with these languages (C# and VB.NET) without ...

Google’s Dart language is now an official ECMA standard with the catchy name of ECMA-408. ECMA may not be a household name, but if you’re reading this, your browser is using ECMAscript to render at ...