In his blog, Avi Alkalay, an Open Standards, Open Source and Linux advisor at IBM Brazil, reports on the official Brazilian vote, which was decided by consensus of the entire technical team, and quite firmly says that OOXML does not deserve to be an international ISO standard.

The Open Office project has again postponed the release date for the next version of its office software package.

Skype, the free VoIP software, has left beta status and advanced to stable Version 2.0.

The ISO standardization organization meeting convened to discuss OOXML has now come to an end and contradictory reports on the proceedings have caused some concern. So much so, that ISO has now issued a statement.

Jonathan Riddell has just announced the first Alpha of the KDE version of Ubuntu 8.04 (codenamed Hardy Heron).

Three years after the initial version, the Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) has finally released version 1.0.