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A couple of days late, but here it is… there is great content out there, but we still need to see much more substance around the how and why for IPv6!
ICANN meeting: Egyptian host demands independence for network … - Current IT news from heise online - London,UK
In second place, Kamel talked of the transition [...]
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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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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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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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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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My colleague Gray Knowlton has a post up on his blog this morning talking about our unwavering commitment to OpenXML as an essential component of the Microsoft Office System.
Many have asked or speculated that the recent announcement of ODF in Service Pack 2 is an indication that Microsoft is quietly stepping away from Open XML. Some ask… [...]
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There are no shortage of press and blog stories this morning sharing the news that Microsoft has committed to supporting version 1.1 of the Open Document Format in SP2 of Office 2007.
As the announcement happened while those of us here in Asia were sleeping peacefully pretty much everything that could have been said on the [...]
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A short while ago I mentioned that Microsoft had committed to releasing the file format specifications for the Microsoft Office Binary files under the Open Specification Promise and making them generally available, removing any of the complications that developers previously had to go through to get hold of these documents.
So, the only remaining question to [...]
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It has been a busy week on the OpenXML front, I have been travelling for the last few days and have just spent the last 30 minutes trying to catch up on the long list in my inbox. Three of the items stand out;
1. Accessibility. A group of accessibility experts have worked on reviewing Ecma-376 [...]
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For computing today interoperability is probably as important to the industry as some of the longer running conversations around subjects such as security and reliability. In previous posts I have talked a great deal about some of my own experience and views in this area.
Interoperability itself has evolved for the computing industry and a growing [...]
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Doug Mahugh has a short post this morning that highlights some resources for the “Office Migration Planning Manager” on Channel 9. This is a great set of tools for anybody looking at mass migration of their older binary office files to the Open XML file format.
The post is short, so I’ll make it easy and [...]
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