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… [...]

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 [...]

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 ...

Doug Mahugh has a short post this morning that highlights some resources for the “Office Migration Planning Manager” on Channel 9. This is a great set of tools for anybody looking at mass migration of their older binary office files to the Open XML file format. The post is short, so I’ll make it easy and [...]