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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

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

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

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

Pragmatism in IT

The approach of Microsoft in the context of interoperability is one of proactivity and pragmatism. The reality of the IT ecosystem is that heterogeneity is reality and that we as a company (and an industry) must continually adapt to properly address the Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:00 PM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments

Novell Releases Open XML Support for OpenOffice.org Novell Edition

Monday, Novell released code that provides support for Ecma Open XML in their OpenOffice.org implementation. The add-in provides the capability for loading and saving of Open XML documents by the popular productivity suite in both the Windows and Linux Read More...
Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 2:23 AM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments

How I define (and think about) Interoperability

When I think about IT (and business for that matter), the interactions that result from useful connections are the primary generators of value. To put it another way, if connections can't be made, value cannot be transferred from one person to another, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:50 PM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments

Ecma Office Open XML final draft specification posted to Microsoft.com

Finally I have posted the updated mirror of the Office Open XML format specification to the Microsoft interoperability website at http://www.microsoft.com/interop/ecmaTC45 in PDF as well as OpenXML. Please take a moment and familiarize yourself with it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:37 AM by craigkitterman | 0 Comments
 
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