October 2008 - Posts

Miscellaneous links for Halloween
31 October 08 09:57 AM

Stephen McGibbon has screenshots of the Open XML and ODF support coming in Windows 7 Wordpad , as announced by Steve Sinofsky at PDC this week. Alex Brown has predicted that 2009 will be a boring year for document formats , while covering some of the Read More...

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DII Workshop Recap
26 October 08 08:02 PM

The latest DII workshop took place in Redmond over the last two days. There were presentations at this event from a variety of people, including members of the Office product groups at Microsoft and developers and consultants from several other companies. Read More...

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Weeks of links for 10-20-2008
20 October 08 11:01 AM

I've fallen a few weeks behind on posting links to various articles and blog posts, so this post is a bit long. As you can see, the world of document format interoperability has been humming along irregardless of my inattention ... Monarch v10 released. Read More...

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SC 34 Plenary, Jeju, Korea
01 October 08 02:06 PM

I've just attended my first SC 34 Plenary, and it was an interesting four days on Jeju island, off the coast of Korea. I'm very pleased with how much we accomplished. The short version is that maintenance of ISO/IEC 29500 has now officially begun; the Read More...

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