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 [...]

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 [...]