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 [...]

You might remember some time ago Intergen released a test project to CodePlex that converted IIS logs to SpreadsheetML. This week at MIX’08 in the United States they have done it again, this time releasing a Silverlight 2.0 based OpenXML WordprocessingML viewer. The work has been done by a small team over the last couple of months, [...]

Over the last twelve months I have met a number of developers who are working with the OpenXML specification to build a wide range of applications. One of those developers is Jason Harrop, who has been working on a couple of projects using the spec. The first was a set of tools that allows users to [...]

If you cast your mind back just over a year or so you might remember this agreement that Microsoft announced with Intel and RosettaNet to develop the next generation of their supply chain standards around Ecma Open XML. It turns out that RosettaNet do a lot of their development work in their labs in Malaysia, and [...]

 Another very long post I’m afraid… I promise to try harder in future.  A couple of days ago the comments on another post strayed into the area of custom schema support in the Ecma Open XML specification. In my reply I documented a scenario that explained how this functionality might be put to use by developers. [...]

Jason Matusow has a posting on his blog this morning that explores some of the discussions around the ability for developers to build independent implementations of the Open XML file format and he pulls out some examples, including one of our own here in Asia Pacific. The ability for independent developers and software vendors to be able [...]

As we all know, over the last few months there have been a lot of different individuals and organizations looking at Open XML, in many of those cases and as part of their investigation work this has resulted in projects to trial the use of the specification and the file format. These projects have been dealing [...]