I just walked out of the finals ceremony at Imagine Cup 2008; what an amazing experience. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate each of the three finalist teams in the 2008 Interoperability Award including Team Together (Poland), Team Ecologix (Brazil) and the Grand Prize winner: Team...

I am a couple weeks late on this one as I have been traveling, but I would like to congratulate Team Ecologix (Brazil), Team SKAN (India), and Team Together (Poland) – our 3 finalist teams for the 2008 Imagine Cup Interoperability Award! These 3 teams will be invited to Paris, France next month for...

Day 2 was all about Partners – those who we are working with through the Interop Vendor Alliance as well as a host of companies building solutions that interoperate with Microsoft NAP technology. Video: Interop Las Vegas 2008 - Day 2 -C

I am not Ryan Seacrest. With that in mind, here is a quick recap of Tuesday's activities at Interop Las Vegas. Video: Interop Las Vegas 2008 - Day 1 Thanks to Grant Williams and Jessica Evans for putting the video together! UPDATE: You can now watch Bob Muglia's Interop Las Vegas keynote online...

The discussion continued Wednesday the 12th in Seoul, when we sat down with representatives from KANOi, Wooam, ECO and Tomotec. Through these discussions we learned that there are a number of very interesting products in the Korean market that are currently taking advantage of open standards-based document...

As announced yesterday , this week represents the kick-off in a series of technical labs and roundtable discussions that we will be driving focused solely on interoperability between open standards based document formats, including ODF, UOF, Open XML and others. The location selected for round 1 was...

Despite missing 2 flights yesterday (one – snow in my driveway, and one - United Airlines "issue"), I arrived here bright and early at 7:00 am this morning (14 hours later than planned) on 4 hours of sleep (5 hours less than planned). The joint Microsoft / Interop Vendor Alliance booth is up and running...

We have secured a number of great well-known speakers from the industry to help lead the discussions at this year's XML 2007 conference! It will be a fun event and hopefully an enlightening one as well. The current schedule & speaker list for the Dec 4 sessions is as follows: 09:00 - Document...

IDEAlliance yesterday announced that Microsoft will be sponsoring an interoperability track at this year's XML 2007 conference in Boston, MA Dec 3-6 (interop track taking place Tuesday the 4 th ). Details about the sessions can be found in the press release . It is going to be a great collection of...

I am looking forward Interop Las Vegas next week at the Mandalay Bay convention center. Microsoft will have a large footprint in the expo hall and will also be featuring a keynote on Wednesday by Bob Muglia and a few other session speakers (including yours truly). All the Microsoft activity at the show...

Next week I will be discussing with folks across Europe the benefits of Open XML and the interoperability of XML based file formats. On Monday I will be in Germany hosting a roundtable at the Technischen Universität München (Technical University of Munich) with students and faculty. On Wednesday,...

I had a great meeting Friday afternoon here in Barcelona with several great developers working hard on interoperability in their respective areas of technology including VC++, C#, Visual Studio Team System, and Open XML. These folks are excited about participation in the Interoperability community by...

We are less than two weeks from Tech Ed Europe and just over 2 weeks to IT Forum . There are a couple of interoperability community things happening in Barcelona that I would like to share with you. First, I will be holding a side meeting with Architects and Developers at Tech Ed, and with IT Professionals...