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Microsoft Interoperability Team
Over the weekend, I attended my first WordPress event: WordCamp Victoria 2012. It was a great...
Date: 01/16/2012
As expected, OASIS members have approved ODF 1.2 as an OASIS Standard. Although the official...
Date: 10/01/2011
I’ve heard from a couple of people who have noticed that the Document Interoperability Initiative...
Date: 07/13/2011
My colleagues on the Office Interoperability team have been hard at work on a tool that will help...
Date: 07/13/2011
The first release of libOPC, a new API for Open XML development, was published on Codeplex last...
Date: 04/19/2011
Eric White posted yesterday release V2 of his simple Open XML document generation system, a...
Date: 03/30/2011
I attended the XML Prague conference over the weekend, where I had the opportunity to see some great...
Date: 03/29/2011
When we implemented support for ODF in Office 2007, we decided to not support the limited...
Date: 03/16/2011
There’s a fundamental challenge that many standards maintenance groups and standards...
Date: 12/22/2010
The Office interoperability team will host a Binary File Format Plugfest on October 19th and 20th in...
Date: 08/18/2010
I blogged recently about the upcoming digital signatures DII workshop, which will take place in...
Date: 05/26/2010
Here’s another Plugfest event coming up here in Redmond to let everyone know about. It’s a...
Date: 04/28/2010
The next DII workshop will be on June 8, 2010 in Redmond. This event will focus on digital...
Date: 04/27/2010
The SC34 plenary and working-group meetings took place in Stockholm last week, hosted by Swedish...
Date: 03/29/2010
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from...
Date: 11/24/2009
One of the more interesting aspects of my job is meeting people who are developing software that...
Date: 11/18/2009
Last week I participated in the DII workshop that took place in Brussels. Attendees included a...
Date: 11/17/2009
I’ve spent the last week in the city of Orvieto, perched atop a hill in Umbria, Italy. Monday and...
Date: 11/07/2009
The next DII (Document Interoperability Initiative) workshop will take place in Brussels on November...
Date: 10/13/2009
If you’re using the Office 2010 Technical Preview and you’re the type of person who likes to look...
Date: 09/23/2009
We’ll be hosting another DII workshop soon, and this one will be of special interest to those who...
Date: 07/21/2009
I recently returned from a long business trip, and while working through my email backlog I’ve come...
Date: 07/09/2009
The posts on this blog are based on my personal perspective, which may or may not reflect official...
Date: 05/20/2009
When I blogged about the release of SP2 with ODF support two weeks ago, I mentioned that I was...
Date: 05/14/2009
Does 1 plus 2 equal 3? After last week’s sometimes acrimonious discussion about formulas in ODF, you...
Date: 05/10/2009
Rob Weir posted on his blog a couple of days ago an Update on ODF Spreadsheet...
Date: 05/05/2009
PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 was released last week, as an open-source PHP API for generating PPTX files,...
Date: 05/04/2009
For those of us on the Office Interoperability team, as well as our colleagues throughout Office,...
Date: 04/28/2009
The INCITS Executive Board has approved the adoption of ISO/IEC IS29500 (Office Open XML) as an...
Date: 04/17/2009
I’m pleased to announce that another DII workshop is coming soon. The last two events took...
Date: 04/09/2009
We had three days of WG4 face-to-face meetings in Prague last week, followed by the SC34 plenary on...
Date: 03/30/2009
I’m here at the WG4 meeting in Prague this week, working on IS29500 maintenance with the other...
Date: 03/25/2009
The ODF TC has published Committee Draft 01 for ODF 1.2. This is not the official public-review...
Date: 03/02/2009
It’s been interesting to be a part of the ODF TC and learn about how an OASIS working group handles...
Date: 02/19/2009
I'm at Sea-Tac waiting to board my flight to the WG4/WG5 meetings in Okinawa this week, and decided...
Date: 01/25/2009
Today we've published another set of document-format implementation notes, this time for the...
Date: 01/16/2009
I've started testing interoperability between various document-format implementations, and have...
Date: 01/15/2009
Man, it's already the second week of 2009. Where does the time go? Here are a few links to posts and...
Date: 01/12/2009
The Ecma General Assembly met on December 4, and one of the matters they addressed was publication...
Date: 12/17/2008