Mmmmmits snug at the top. Especially for Julian David, IBM's top UK salesman, who was picked last week to be the next Director General of Intellect, the ICT oligopoly's trade association.It's only ...

Woah there, cowboy. The UK hasn't broken its open standards pledge quite yet.

The British government withdrew its open standards policy after lobbying from Microsoft, it has been revealed in a sensitive Cabinet Office brief obtained by Computer Weekly.