This morning Microsoft has released an open letter from Tom Robertson and Jean Paoli (GMs co-leading interoperability at MS) at http://www.microsoft.com/interop/letters/choice.mspx . The letter demonstrates with specifics IBMs attempt to limit customer...

Great news today: the alliance is growing by leaps and bounds. Red Hat officially announced their participation.

I just ran across these links today. Great to see additional implementations of Open XML coming online! Office Open XML Import Filter for Spreadsheets The next version of StarSuite will support Open XML

Always an entertaining read for those not easily offended by superfluous profanity and for those who enjoy outlandish conspiracy theories, Sam Hiser (OpenDocument Foundation) had post last night trashing the open source ODF translator project that was...

Today version 1.0 of the translator between ODF and Open XML has been made available on Source Forge and has already been downloaded over 10,000 times! The Microsoft press release can be found here . This release represents a ton of work, all done in...

The answer to the first question may be yes or no, but my guess is the second answer is an unequivocal "yes". Documents contain the bulk of data generated by information workers in today's businesses. It's also no secret that the majority of the documents...