I’ve linked this from an earlier post, but it probably worth highlighting. Following on from one of the sessions that took place as part of the DII workshop on ODF and Office SP2 in Redmond Doug Mahugh has written up what was described as the guiding principles for the ODF implementation in Microsoft Office. This blog post [...]

Yesterday’s DII workshop on ODF and SP2 is all done. It was great to be a part of the conversation and to meet many of the people that I have only ever known through blogs and online. From my point of view it was really helpful to hear experts in this field discussion document standards in [...]

Yesterday’s DII workshop on ODF and SP2 is all done. It was great to be a part of the conversation and to meet many of the people that I have only ever known through blogs and online. From my point of view it was really helpful to hear experts in this field discussion document standards in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As he promised last week, Alex Brown has gone ahead and tested an ODF file saved by OpenOffice 2.4.0 against the RelaxNG schema for IS26300, and as you would expect the test failed. (just like his test of Office 2007) Clearly there is still work to be done. Again, only tentative conclusions can be drawn from a smoke test (readers unfamiliar [...]

Patrick Durusau, the project editor for IS26300 and the Open Document Format TC in OASIS, has posted an open letter on his site discussing the process that Ecma has been through to standardize OpenXML. He discusses the increasing openness of the specification at each stage in the process. You will find Patrick’s open letter here; The OpenXML ...

According to Wikipedia the term FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp.: “FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instil in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products.” As Eric S. Raymond writes: “The idea, of [...]

The ODF Alliance published a report on 20th December last year that puzzled me a little. The document talked about the steps that governments globally are taking in the debate around XML based document formats, and specifically tried to outline a number of geographies where a governments had made a selection of one standard over another. This [...]

The ODF Alliance published a report on 20th December last year that puzzled me a little. The document talked about the steps that governments globally are taking in the debate around XML based document formats, and specifically tried to outline a number of geographies where a governments had made a selection of one standard over another. This [...]