June 2009 - Posts

WG4/WG5 Meetings
29 June 09 07:32 AM

I’ve just returned last night from a week in Copenhagen, where I attended the SC34 WG4/WG5 meetings that were hosted by Danish Standards.  As usual, it was several days of non-stop document format discussions, in the meetings as well as over breakfast, Read More...

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ODF Plugfest, The Hague
16 June 09 11:09 PM

Over the last two days I’ve been attending the ODF Interoperability Workshop, a fascinating event that brought together ODF implementers from many countries to talk about the issues and collaborate on interoperability testing.  The workshop web site Read More...

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Testing Office’s ODF Implementation
14 June 09 09:32 PM

In this blog post, I’m going to cover some of the details of how we approached the challenges of testing our ODF 1.1 implementation that was released in Office 2007 SP2. Adding support for a new document format such as ODF to Office is a large and complex Read More...

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Standards-Based Interoperability
05 June 09 07:02 AM

There has been quite a bit of discussion lately in the blogosphere about various approaches to document format interoperability.  It’s great to see all of the interest in this topic, and in this post I’d like to outline how we look at interoperability Read More...

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