This is pretty cool: http://www.developwithoutborders.com/Default.aspx There are a lot of ways that we get involved with charities at Microsoft. I really love how easy they make it is for us to pick from just about any charitable organization out there...

OK, forgive the random Sneaker Pimps reference and I promise we will move off this topic of ODF politics we've had the past week or two, but I wanted to call out something that Stephen McGibbon pointed out to me today. He mentioned this blog post he made...

In my post last week about the lack of table support in ODF , some folks were curious as to why the Ecma Open XML formats have three different table models. I explained that when you are designing a file format, you need to examine closely the target...

I must be reading this wrong, but in the ODF spec for tables it says the following: "This chapter describes the table structure that is used for tables that are embedded within text documents and for spreadsheets." Could it really be the case that...

There are a number of great sources of information on the new Office Open XML formats out there. I like to think that this blog is one of those sources, but there is also the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community, and the Ecma TC45 site . Another great source...

Doug Mahugh has another post on programmatically generating a basic Office Open XML file. This latest post shows how to create a simple SpreadsheetML file : This post covers the code for a CreateXlsx program that creates a simple Open XML spreadsheet...

Stephen McGibbon has an interesting blog post based on his observations of the politics behind standardization. He's been involved in a lot of the ODF and Open XML discussions and started looking deeper into the reasons behind ODF going through ISO even...

It looks like there is a new project starting up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community for transforming WordprocessingML into HTML using XSLT. The first article posted here ( http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/333.aspx ) starts off just mapping into...

This is the fourth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature . In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML , details on XHML compliance , and how we map styles to semantics . Today Zeyad is discussing...

There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open source project to transform between the Ecma Office Open XML formats and the OASIS OpenDocument format. Rather than respond to all the comments and questions...

Today we are announcing the creation of the Open XML Translator project that will help translate between the Office Open XML formats and the OpenDocument format. We've talked a lot about the value the Open XML formats bring, and one of them of course...

For those of you who weren't able to attend my talk at TechEd 2006 on the file formats, you can actually view it online here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032297834&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode...