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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

ISO: ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard

The official ISO press release can be found here: http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123 Martin LaMonica's (CNET) take: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9908939-7.html?tag=nefd.top Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:10 PM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments

It’s Official: Open XML approved as ISO Standard

Open XML vote results are in – Ecma appears to have secured ISO/IEC ratification of the standard – now known as IS 29500. It is a great victory for supporters of document choice and flexibility and for those who prefer to use ISO standard formats. It Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:28 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

Great Endorsement for Document Choice from HP

Check out the HP Position Statement on Standardization of Office Document Formats . It is a refreshing and pragmatic view - that choice is important and ODF and Open XML will co-exist and interoperate. On the ISO standardization process: "HP believes Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:24 AM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

Bill Gates on Document Archival, Standards, and Open XML

Here is a quick clip of Bill being asked about Open XML and digital archival by Washington State Congressman Brian Baird during a U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science and Technology meeting last week. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:42 PM by craigkitterman | 0 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

An Open Letter by Chris Capossela, Sr. Vice President, Microsoft Office

In this letter , Chris outlines the importance of Office Open XML as a document format choice for customers, the benefits of global stewardship of the format through international standards bodies, and Microsoft's pledge for future support of the open Read More...
Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 9:52 PM by craigkitterman | 0 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

Open XML documents on Symbian Devices!

With the latest version (4.0) of Quickoffice Premier from Quickoffice® one can open, edit and save as the Open XML file formats on Symbian OS based mobile devices! This is yet another great example momentum of Open XML across a broad array of platforms Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:42 PM by craigkitterman | 2 Comments

Apple Products Support Open XML: Video Demos

My colleague Jean-Christophe Cimetiere has been working on a lot of demos and these were just posted to You Tube . It is really cool to see very wide spread adoption of Open XML in consumer products like iPhone, as well as in other products on Apple OS Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 1:26 AM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

IBM and Google Support for Open XML

I have read a number of blogs posts and articles recently that demonstrate the groundswell of support for the Office Open XML formats. Most impressive in this list of course is support by both Google and IBM (that's right – I said IBM). Gray Knowlton Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:07 AM by craigkitterman | 2 Comments

Back In Action + Burton Group Report on Open XML / ODF

After taking a month off for parental leave over the holidays I am back at work. A lot has been happening over this period with the Open XML ISO standardization effort as the process moves closer to the final Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM). All exciting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:26 AM by craigkitterman | 1 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
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