The technology world is one of many buzzwords and phrases, one that you hear a lot at the moment is “Service Oriented Architecture” or “SOA” which sounds like a highly technical methodology for systems design, in reality SOA techniques can provide a very effective way of dealing with organizational complexity and divides as we work [...]

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 ...

Interoperability this, interoperability that… it is clearly an important conversation in our industry today, and one that spans the whole range of vendors, technology areas and end users. Frequently conversations around interoperability get pulled in the direction of the technology that is in use, but while there is clearly work to be done ...

You might have caught a story in the press today about a translator project that Microsoft and the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium are establishing on SourceForge that will provide both some new functionality in Microsoft Office along with an offline capability to convert Open XML files into DAISY format for use with a ...

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 [...]

Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion in the press and on blogs about some so-called fragmentation in the world of ODF, or the Open Document Format. Much of the press is centered on the evolving views that members of the Open Document Foundation have around what it means to be a [...]