Several blogs are reporting on the highlights from Sam Ramji’s keynote at OSCON this morning. Sam announced several items of significance that will dramatically advance the work that Microsoft is already doing with the Open Source developer community. This is one of those posts where I’m probably better off quoting several others ...

A quick mention. Doug Mahugh is outlining a workshop that will be held on Microsoft’s Campus in Redmond on July 30th, principally looking at some of the document format interoperability work that will be going into Microsoft Office SP2. We’re holding a workshop in Redmond on July 30 to talk about our ODF support in [...]

As part of the ongoing publication of document format specifications, IDG’s Elizabeth Montalbano has an article published on ComputerWorld about PDF’s approval by the ISO as an international standard; The ISO has approved Adobe Systems Inc.’s widely used Portable Document Format as an international standard, and the organization ...

This story has appeared in a number of publications over the last few days, I’ll pick up the copy from iTnews in Australia. The text is based upon an interview with the current ISO Secretary-General, Alan Bryden, where he comments on the recent process to standardize OpenXML as IS29500. Here are a couple of choice paragraphs; On [...]

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… [...]

That statement should be no surprise really, as I am frequently reminded, I’m an employee of Microsoft so I have to be a believer don’t I? That isn’t totally fair, last time I checked I still carried my own opinions on just about every topic that is up for debate in our industry today, most [...]

I see Eric White is carrying details of the release of the OpenXML Powertools on his blog today. If you want to be able to generate OpenXML documents on the server, without an installation of Microsoft Office, then this is the way to do it. You’ll find the details on Eric’s blog by following this link; Processing Open [...]

Back in March of this year, Doug Mahugh talked about the roadmap for the OpenXML SDK, an important set of tools that will allow developers to quickly develop applications that read and right OpenXML (ECMA-376) documents. This first version of the SDK, which is available as of today, includes a set of APIs capable of manipulating [...]

Several blogs this week caught the ratification of IS 38500 by the ISO, at standard providing a framework for Corporate Governance of Information Technology. Serge Thorn talks a little about the origins of this work, discussing how it draws from an Australian Standard, AS8015; Establish clearly understood responsibilities for ICT (eg, ensure ...

The laziest type of blog post is one that just quotes a bunch of other people and adds little value in its own right, I tend to use this blog as a combination of a place to document some of my own views and a place to store my own notes as various events [...]