I’ve posted extensively about our various interop related efforts over the last year or so, highlighting many of the big steps that we have made in this area, each one incrementally making us a more interoperable platform than before and a more participatory citizen in the wider software industry. When I came into the office this [...]

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 [...]

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 ...

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 ...

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 [...]

During his keynote on Thursday at OSCON Peter Salus reminded us that many of the stories that we discuss today about technology are just replayed from years past, the names change and the scale grows but the stories are fundamentally the same. Increasingly I find myself involved in discussions about IPv6 implementation, it was discussed at the ...

Several blogs are reporting on the highlights from Sam Ramji’s keynote at OSCON this morning. Sam announced several items of significance that will dramatically advance the work that Microsoft is already doing with the Open Source developer community. This is one of those posts where I’m probably better off quoting several others ...

A quick mention. Doug Mahugh is outlining a workshop that will be held on Microsoft’s Campus in Redmond on July 30th, principally looking at some of the document format interoperability work that will be going into Microsoft Office SP2. We’re holding a workshop in Redmond on July 30 to talk about our ODF support in [...]

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… [...]

I see Eric White is carrying details of the release of the OpenXML Powertools on his blog today. If you want to be able to generate OpenXML documents on the server, without an installation of Microsoft Office, then this is the way to do it. You’ll find the details on Eric’s blog by following this link; Processing Open [...]