New Macbook users have been introduced to another level of DRM recently when trying to watch some movies downloaded from iTunes. Ars Technica first picked up the story after a teacher complained he couldn't watch Hellboy 2 on a classroom projector. (It was not mentioned whether he intented to watch it by himself or show it to his class). Many users on the Apple Support forums have also reported this same problem. New Macbooks include HDCP, and a number of new and older movies on iTunes are flagged not to play if a non-HDCP compliant display device is attached to the notebook.

Alex Brown, head of th ISO OOXML standard group, revealed in a blog posting last week that Microsoft Office 2007 fails conformance testing with its own ISO OOXML standard.

In short:

Alex goes on to wonder at the end of his posting how well most other word processors would fare with ODF.

Groklaw has also weighed in with comments on the not-entirely-surprising reveltation.

Microsoft's push for fast-track approval of its OOXML document format as an ISO standard has failed, according to a news article from PC World. The proposal now must be reworked to address comments made during the voting process and will be up for another vote by ISO members early next year. Details on the voting outcome can also be found at Groklaw, and you can read Microsoft's spin on the outcome here.