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Interoperability on tap @ Interop Las Vegas!

Again this year we will be talking interoperability at the Interop Las Vegas conference. The event is next week (Apr-27 to May-2) at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Microsoft will have a large booth presence where we will be showcasing a the work Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:20 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

Document Interoperability Roundtables & Labs - Take 2: Seoul, Korea

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:40 AM by craigkitterman | 2 Comments

Document Interoperability Roundtables & Labs - Take 1: Cambridge, MA

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 5:51 PM by craigkitterman | 2 Comments

More details on Interop Track @ XML 2007 Conference

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:17 AM by craigkitterman | 4 Comments

Microsoft Sponsoring Interoperability Track at XML 2007

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:48 PM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments

Java Open XML API Project officially launched!

The Java API library project started by Julien Chable ( Wygwam France) has officially launched at http://www.openxml4j.org . Java developers now have a nice set of methods which will allow them to create rich Open XML documents for consumption by office Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:19 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

DIN working group formed on translation of document formats!

The Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin today announced a new DIN working group that will be focused on document translation to support interoperability! The working group is open and has issued an invitation for participation. The output of this group will Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 8:22 PM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments

OpenXMLCommunity.org

The Open XML Community site launched yesterday, with an inaugural list of members including over 300 companies worldwide supporting Open XML and its ISO standardization. Have a look at http://www.openxmlcommunity.org . Great momentum is building in the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:20 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

EU Roundtables on Open XML Interoperability

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) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:37 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

Sun to support Open XML

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:18 AM by craigkitterman | 2 Comments

Selective “Openness” and strange profane rants…

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:35 AM by craigkitterman | 9 Comments

Open XML translator downloads hit 10,000 in 6 hours!

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 6:10 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

Interoperability @ Tech Ed, IT Forum in Barcelona

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:53 PM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments
 
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