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In other news sixteen years ago the US mortgage provider Freddie Mac has selected x.400 as their primary standard for electronic mail.
For those of you who do not know Freddie Mac, the first paragraph of this article explains more;
Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., is one of America’s busiest purveyors of mortgages. [...]
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Those of you still following the drama that relates to the standardization of OpenXML will probably have caught a story in the Inquirer earlier this week that announced that thirteen of the twenty three members of the Standards Norway document format group had walked out in protest over the countries OpenXML vote.
NORWEGIAN MEMBERS of the [...]
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It is very encouraging to see the European Commission push for more IPv6 deployment activity. The story in the UK’s ITPro magazine focuses on comments made by Detlef Eckert at a recent conference in Madrid.
The inevitability of IPv6 means that businesses should switch now and avoid the costs and complexities of a last-minute migration, the [...]
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Alex has a pretty constructive post up this morning that is worth a read, he lays out ten points that he thinks need to be considered as part of a reform program for ISO/JTC1.
In my view this is a lot more helpful than many of the other comments that I see in blogs and in [...]
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Right before I went on vacation I posted some initial thoughts about the relevance of IPv6 to countries wanting to bring new users to the internet and expand existing internet based economic markets.
While I still don’t see enough governmental support for the massive amount of effort that is needed to make this shift it is [...]
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The SC34 plenary meeting in Jeju, Korea has just wrapped up, Doug Mahugh and Alex Brown have some coverage in their blogs.
Doug has a high level view of the meeting, along with a break down of the actions from the WG1 and SC34 plenary meetings;
I’d estimate we had around 40 people there, although I’ve not [...]
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Here is reminder from Jamie Watson about support for Open XML files in the upcoming release of OpenOffice.org 3.0.
The best news about this release, at least for me personally, is that it can read Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML files (.docx, .xlsx and the like). That is extremely good news - if you need to [...]
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Doug Mahugh is carrying an announcement of the next in the series of workshops that we’re running in Redmond to support the Document Interoperability Initiative, this time looking at OpenXML Implementation and Interoperability.
The workshop will be held on the Microsoft Redmond Campus on the 24th and 25th October. I managed to attend the last one, [...]
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Here is one that I have been meaning to document for a while now. Back in July New Zealand’s ComputerWorld carried an announcement from National Archives Australia about a set of standards for electronic record keeping.
Working under the auspices of the International Council on Archives, the Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office [...]
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NetworkWorld is carrying details of a joint announcement from Microsoft, EMC and IBM about a specification that will be collaboratively developed within OASIS to deal with interoperability standards between content management systems.
The NetworkWorld story is posted here;
EMC, IBM and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a specification that will let content management systems from different [...]
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Both Doug Mahugh and Eric White have some info on this, version 2.0 of the SDK for Open XML is now available as a CTP, you’ll find it here.
Some of the new features include;
The OpenXmlDiff utility identifies differences in the markup in two Open XML documents.
The Open XML Class Explorer helps you determine which strongly [...]
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The text below is an article that I recently wrote in partnership with Steve Mutkoski, a colleague from our regional office here in Singapore.
We had a few goals that we were trying to meet while we wrote this. The first was to think through some of the important lessons that we learned during the time [...]
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The text below was posted today on ISO’s site;
2008-08-15
The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of the document failed to garner sufficient support.
None of the [...]
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I’ve linked this from an earlier post, but it probably worth highlighting.
Following on from one of the sessions that took place as part of the DII workshop on ODF and Office SP2 in Redmond Doug Mahugh has written up what was described as the guiding principles for the ODF implementation in Microsoft Office.
This blog post [...]
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Yesterday’s DII workshop on ODF and SP2 is all done. It was great to be a part of the conversation and to meet many of the people that I have only ever known through blogs and online.
From my point of view it was really helpful to hear experts in this field discussion document standards in [...]
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