Well I'm currently flying over Canada on my way back from Trondheim, Norway and the most recent Ecma face to face meetings hosted by StatOil. I was worried that the wireless internet support wouldn't be available but I guess the connexion service isn...

A comment was posted today that had a lot of thought put into it and rather than just replying to it in the comments stream I thought it would be worth talking to directly. I have to apologize for not replying sooner to it, as it looks like John actually...

There are now well over 500 registered members on the Open XML Developer community site, and from what I've heard there were over 20,000 unique visitors last month alone. I'm not sure if you guys have been out to the site lately, but there are a ton of...

Here's another application that is able to take advantage of the Office Open XML formats. MindManager is able to transform "mind maps" into the Open XML format. This is really cool: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=235048 Doug Mahugh was...

The Word team has started up a new blog, and Jon Bailor has made the first introduction post: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/ archive/2006/09/15/756756.aspx I've talked with Jon, and he's really excited about giving folks some insight...

Those of you who using Beta 2 probably noticed that the .docx versions of the Ecma working draft 1.4 didn't open. As I'm sure you've noticed from the latest draft of the spec, we've been working pretty hard over the past several months in the Ecma...

Some pretty cool news to report today: XSDs for the Office Open XML formats working draft 1.4 The XSDs for the Office Open XML formats working draft 1.4 are now available. You can grab them from here: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/Ecma...

Some really interesting things to note for the week: New blog on Math in Office – Murray Sargent who was the key architect behind the new math functionality in Office 2007 has started blogging. Check out his first post on Formula Autobuildup in...

Rick Jelliffe had a great post earlier this week discussing the problems you get when you allow for really loose conformance. We've had discussions around this issue in Ecma for the past 9 months. On the one hand, we don't want people to feel like they...

Jean Goffinet pointed out that he and the folks working on the ODF to Open XML converter project now have a blog going up on the SourceForge site ( http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/blog/ ). In the latest post, Jean discusses the thinking that went...

I haven't blogged in a week, and I figured I should post some thoughts before heading out for the three day weekend: American Football : It's good to see football season starting up again. I went to the Seahawk vs. Raider game last night with my brother...