Brian Jones: Office Solutions

I just saw that Document Sciences has also joined the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site (story here ). It's been a pretty fun week seeing all the folks joining the community. It's pretty suprising that after only a week we already have over 250 registered users...

As Doug mentions here , there is a brief video where a few of us were talking last week about the creation of the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site. It's something we'd been thinking about doing since I first started blogging last summer. At the time there just...

I always forget how much fun these developer conferences can be. On Tuesday, we had an entire afternoon focused on the Open XML formats. There were three presentations focusing on different aspects of the formats, followed by a couple hours of food and...

There exist today billions of documents in the Office binary formats. With the move to the standard Open XML formats as the default for Office 2007; the free updates allowing Office 2000, XP, and 2003 to also support those formats; and the participation...

This should be an awesome week. We have a ton of folks out here in Redmond for the Microsoft Office Developers Conference . If you didn't recieve an invitation, but would still like to follow what's going on, you can sign up for the live webcast tomorrow...

Since Beta 1, the Office team has been hard at work refining the new UI. Yesterday they revealed the latest work, and for those of you on Beta 1, you'll notice that things are much more crisp. If you haven't seen any of the screenshots yet, you should...