New Zealand’s Intergen Deliver OpenXML Viewing Using Silverlight 2.0

You might remember some time ago Intergen released a test project to CodePlex that converted IIS logs to SpreadsheetML.

This week at MIX’08 in the United States they have done it again, this time releasing a Silverlight 2.0 based OpenXML WordprocessingML viewer.

The work has been done by a small team over the last couple of months, with James Newton-King leading the development work, James talks a little on his blog about what it has taken to build this.

The work is making the headlines both in the New Zealand press, and overseas.

Here is an extract from New Zealand’s Computerworld;

Kiwi software developer Intergen is launching software it claims is a world first at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas this week.

The company’s TextGlow product allows users to view Word documents created in Microsoft’s controversial Office Open XML format without having to download them and without having Microsoft Office or Word installed on their computers.

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As one of the first applications to combine Office Open XML and Silverlight, TextGlow is a technological breakthrough. It works cross platform and is freely available to all users.

This is a really good example of a small team making use of the OpenXML specification to build a really cool tool!

You can take a look for yourself here.