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 [...]

Cast your mind back to last November and you may remember Microsoft committing to working with the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium to produce a translator to their DAISY XML file format (translating WordprocessingML to Daisy DTBooks format), this allows anybody with OpenXML files to convert them for use with a wide array ...

One of the great mysteries during the process to standardize OpenXML is where some of the news stories come from, especially when they are clearly not substantiated by facts. As I have spent more time reading some of the blogs on this topic I have slowly begun to understand how some of these stories spin [...]

I have been on holiday most of this week so have not really been keeping as close an eye as I could be on happenings in and around the world of technology. One thing I am curious about is who won the Kayak award, and I can’t find an answer as of yet. To explain, the owners of [...]