About this blog

My name is Doug Mahugh and I'm Lead Standards Professional on the Office Interoperability team at Microsoft.  Our team is responsible for a variety of activities in support of interoperability between Office and other products, and my role covers these areas:

• Represent Office in various standards groups, including ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 WG4 and WG5, INCITS V1, the OASIS ODF TC, the OASIS OIC TC, and Ecma International TC45.
• Work with other implementers to share information that will help improve interoperatility, including through the Document Interoperability Initiative, the Interoperability Vendor Alliance, and other industry-wide interoperability programs.
• Act as a liaison between Microsoft Office and the broader document format community, through this blog, speaking engagements, workshops, and other activities.  I have two goals in this work: spreading the word about what Microsoft is doing to enable reliable interoperability, and collecting feedback from the community on how we can all work more effectively together.

If you would like to participate in future DII workshops, have specific needs for information to help improve the interoperability between your products and Microsoft Office, or would like to make suggestions about how we can help improve interoperability, please let me know.