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 will be in Ghent, Belgium at the Developer & IT Pro days event with my colleague Doug Mahugh. We will be hosting a roundtable in the morning and Doug will be delivering one of his great deep dive sessions on Office Open XML Development in the afternoon.

I am really looking forward to these discussions. I hope to gain additional insight into how folks in the EU are thinking about document format interoperability and what it really means to them considering the current landscape of ODF and Open XML. If you are in the neighborhood, please stop by and say hi.