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Open letter on Open XML
There's an open letter to the community on the Microsoft interop site today that acknowledges some of the tactics that have been used to try to limit choice in document formats lately. As the letter...
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DIS ballot period for Ecma 376/DIS 29500
Ecma International has announced that they've heard from the JTC 1 Secretariat that Office Open XML has moved to the next phase of the ISO/IEC standards process. This phase, known as the DIS ballot...
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May cooler heads prevail
I've blogged a bit recently about the ugly tone of some of the tactics that have been used in the document-formats debate. Now today comes welcome news of a more reasonable and level-headed...
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INCITS Executive Board to vote on "Approval with comments"
The INCITS executive board has been meeting this week, and today they decided to issue a ballot for "Approval with comments." They'll reach a decision within the executive board on this proposed...
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Breaking out of the rut
The Open XML standardization debate has been going on long enough that there are some recurring themes which we've all seen many times now: the list of Groklaw comments and various responses to them...
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US passes motion for "Yes with comments"
The INCITS executive board in the US has passed a motion to vote "Yes with comments" on DIS 29500, Office Open XML. Voting details can be found here."OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US""OOXML Approval...
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Voting on DIS 29500
The voting has closed on the Open XML ballot, and ISO has issued a press release that explains the outcome:The five-month ballot process ended on 2 September and was open to the IEC and ISO national...
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Video discussion with Brian Jones
I had a chance last week to talk to Brian Jones about the proposed dispositions to the DIS 29500 comments. We discussed the thinking behind a few typical dispositions as well as the business case for...
View ArticleBinary File Format Plugfest
The Office interoperability team will host a Binary File Format Plugfest on October 19th and 20th in Redmond. The event will target a developer level audience. Microsoft subject matter experts from...
View ArticleCan progress be standardized?
There’s a fundamental challenge that many standards maintenance groups and standards implementers deal with from time to time: how can standards evolve, and implementers innovate, while maintaining the...
View ArticleChange Tracking in ODF
When we implemented support for ODF in Office 2007, we decided to not support the limited change-tracking functionality included in that version of the ODF standard. I covered the thinking behind that...
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XML Prague 2011
I attended the XML Prague conference over the weekend, where I had the opportunity to see some great presentations, meet some interesting people, and drink plenty of Czech beer. The latter being a...
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Release V2 of Open XML document generation system
Eric White posted yesterday release V2 of his simple Open XML document generation system, a high-performance tool for generating customized documents from any data source that can be serialized as...
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libOPC version 0.0.1 released
The first release of libOPC, a new API for Open XML development, was published on Codeplex last week. This API is the first open-source cross-platform API for developers working with Open Packaging...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office Binary File Format Validator
My colleagues on the Office Interoperability team have been hard at work on a tool that will help implementers of the Office binary formats identify and correct any issues in binary documents created...
View ArticleNew DII website locations
I’ve heard from a couple of people who have noticed that the Document Interoperability Initiative website (www.documentinteropinitiative.org) started redirecting to a new site recently...
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OASIS ODF 1.2 Approved
As expected, OASIS members have approved ODF 1.2 as an OASIS Standard. Although the official announcement from OASIS hasn’t been posted yet, Rob Weir (chair of the OASIS OpenDocument Technical...
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WordCamp Victoria 2012
Over the weekend, I attended my first WordPress event: WordCamp Victoria 2012. It was a great opportunity to learn more about WordPress and meet a bunch of people who are passionate about WordPress,...
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