You can’t have missed the fact that we announced the release of Silverlight 2.0 earlier today. Scott Guthrie has the details of the release on his blog; Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2.  You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it, [...]

John Resig has a post up this morning discussing the integration of the jQuery JavaScript library into Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax Framework and they’re looking to expand it with the use of jQuery. This means that ...

It has only been over the last year that I have been starting to look at and understand the complexity of moving the world from IPv4 to IPv6. There are a number of compelling reasons for making the move, not least of which is the access to much needed additional address space. A recent article [...]

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 ...

We recently sponsored the Economist Intelligence Unit to write two papers examining the role of collaboration, interoperability and organizational management in the delivery of government services and systems, the end results make for pretty good reading. The first document is titled “Towards Seamless Administration” and takes a look ...

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… [...]

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 ...

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 [...]

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 ...

Views and understanding of every topic evolve over time, one of the more “interesting” elements of working for a company as large as Microsoft is that it can take a long time for change to be recognized in the wider marketplace. While internally it is often possible to point to the exact moment when a [...]