Several of my Microsoft colleagues are blogging this morning about a comment that Brian Jones posted yesterday. Brian announces two things that the company is doing to support developers and organizations that want to understand the relationship between the binary file formats and OpenXML and/or manage conversions between the two. 1. The ...

In discussions about Open XML one of the questions I get asked most frequently is one that was originally presented by noooxml.org and our colleagues at a large and well known competitor. “We already have an international standard for document formats, why do we need another?” The answer is a straight forward one, Open XML has [...]

For a while now I’ve been meaning to put together a list of some of the resources that exist today to help developers get off the ground with Open XML. My inbox this morning contained a link to a post on James Newton-King’s blog, and he appears to have saved me the trouble.  James is a [...]

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 [...]