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Imagine Cup 2008: Interoperability Award Winner – Team SKAN of India!

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:31 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

Imagine Cup – Interoperability Award Finalists

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 10:57 PM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments

Interop Las Vegas 2008 – Day 2

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:22 PM by craigkitterman | 3 Comments

Interop Las Vegas 2008 – Day 1

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:57 PM by craigkitterman | 3 Comments

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 | 0 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

Information Cards in PHP made easy!

Developers can now integrate InfoCards into their PHP-based web projects using the recently released Zend Framework v1.5 with the Zend_InfoCard 1.5 library component. Documentation on Information Card integration can be found here . For more information Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:53 PM 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

DreamSpark Program – Free Software for students and a GREAT demonstration of Interoperability

How do you ensure that somebody, someplace in the world is actually a student (so you can give 'em free software)? This is the challenge that these gentlemen sat down to solve. Through the combined use of Open Source and Microsoft technologies, they have Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 10:04 PM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments

Microsoft Office Binary Formats – now freely available to all!

This afternoon we published the specs for the office binary document formats and placed them under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise . This means that anyone can now freely use these formats for any reason without any concerns over intellectual Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:42 AM by craigkitterman | 1 Comments
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