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 [...]

You might remember some time ago Intergen released a test project to CodePlex that converted IIS logs to SpreadsheetML. This week at MIX’08 in the United States they have done it again, this time releasing a Silverlight 2.0 based OpenXML WordprocessingML viewer. The work has been done by a small team over the last couple of months, [...]

Over the last twelve months I have met a number of developers who are working with the OpenXML specification to build a wide range of applications. One of those developers is Jason Harrop, who has been working on a couple of projects using the spec. The first was a set of tools that allows users to [...]

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 [...]