Brian Jones: Office Solutions

Well, the BRM is over and I can only describe the week as a lot of technical work and a lot of great people I was lucky enough to meet and exchange ideas with. The objective of the BRM was to work with all of the National Body delegations in the room...

I'm traveling right now and don't have a lot of time to go really deep on this, but today's interoperability announcement is great for Microsoft for a lot of reasons. Gray Knowlton posted on this today , it's a great read if you want to understand how...

For folks excited by the availability of the binary file format specs last week , but concerned about the long term availability of those documents, this should be good news. The British Library has archived, and now made them available to the public...

As promised last month , the binary documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) is now live. In addition to this, the project to create an open source translator (binary -> Open XML) has now been formed on sourceforge, and the development roadmap has been published...

A few interesting links today:     Burton Group's Response to the ODF Alliance (Part 1) – A great set of responses to some of the ODF Alliance's criticisms of the Burton Groups " What's Up .DOC " report. Native Open XML support on Apple's Mac OS X...

Here's a cool video showing the rich Open XML support available on the iPhone: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oNcAjS7LqKM There are a number of videos available related to Open XML if you are interested: http://youtube.com/user/OpenXML -Brian

Interesting post from Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/01/31/sun-standards-as-quot-strategic-weapon-quot.aspx -Brian

I know Rob Weir has been traveling a lot these days lobbying against Open XML across the world, so when I saw this post yesterday I assumed it must be jetlag. I think he completely misunderstood some of the responses from Ecma related to the issue of...