Brian Jones: Office Solutions

Sorry I've been offline for the past couple weeks. I've been meaning to post some content for awhile but I've been swamped with Office 14 planning. I was trying to stay up on the comments from my last post , but still ended up slacking there as well ...

It's good to see the latest news out of Malaysia , where they have decided to take a step back from the previous rush towards mandating ODF. It was clear that many of the anti-OpenXML folks out there were pushing too hard on the process and were actually...

For those of you who are working with Open XML files, there is a great tool out there on Codeplex called the " Package Explorer ". It's an open source project that's already pretty far along, and it was started by Wouter Van Vugt . Wouter is one of the...

Ecma just posted a press release this morning announcing that Office Open XML has now officially moved on to the next phase in the ISO standardization process: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/PressReleases/PR_TC45_April2007.htm This means that...