Category Archives: Interoperability

Release Version of Open XML SDK v2 is now available

Posted on March 16, 2010 by oliver

Several of my colleagues are talking about this today, after four successful technology preview releases the final version is now available. You can download version 2.0 of the Open XML SDK from the Microsoft Download Centre. For those of you … Continue reading →

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Interop – some nuts and bolts

Posted on March 4, 2010 by oliver

Following on from a conversation with one of our customers in Australia earlier this morning I thought it might be worthwhile highlighting some of the more collaborative work we have been doing around interop over the last few years.  A … Continue reading →

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Office 2010 protocol documentation published

Posted on July 20, 2009 by oliver

I think this could well be another first for us. I’ve talked about the importance of the protocol documentation in past posts, but I think this is the first time we have had things written up and available so far … Continue reading →

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Twenty thousand lines of device driver code, contributed under the GPL v2

Posted on July 20, 2009 by oliver

Each year we do something around OSCON that brings us a step closer to delivering on the interop commitments that we have made to the wider IT community. This year’s Day One announcement is that we’re contributing twenty thousand lines … Continue reading →

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Open XPS – the Open XML Paper Specification is now an ECMA Standard

Posted on July 1, 2009 by oliver

I’m surprised I missed this, I’ve been a little distracted by my recent move. It seems that back on the 16th June OpenXPS, the Open XML Paper Specification, was approved as an ECMA standard by their 97th General Assembly meeting, … Continue reading →

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Back and forth, back and forth… ODF 1.1, ODS and Interoperability

Posted on May 7, 2009 by oliver

Back in June last year I posted an entry on this blog titled “My way or the highway…” at the time I was exploring the parallels (or lack of them) between the way that we “debate” as a technology community … Continue reading →

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ODF 1.1 support now native in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2

Posted on May 4, 2009 by oliver

You may remember that a little under a year ago Microsoft talked about a commitment we were making to support ODF 1.1 in Service Pack 2 for Office 2007. Since then the subject has come up from time to time … Continue reading →

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Can we build an EHR that people want?

Posted on March 24, 2009 by oliver

I loved this quote from a Dr. Kevin Hughes (a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital) that was published in New Zealand’s ComputerWorld earlier this week. … a story titled, “E-health records not enough, experts say”; “We don’t have interoperability within … Continue reading →

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2009, a year for public service reform?

Posted on March 15, 2009 by oliver

A post appeared on New Zealand’s publicaddress.net blog earlier this week which I thought was fantastically insightful. The site invites guest bloggers from around New Zealand to post on whatever topic is dear to their heart, this one in particular … Continue reading →

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eGovernment Interoperability Frameworks, time for a rethink?

Posted on March 13, 2009 by oliver

Almost ten years ago I was involved in the process to write one of the first eGovernment Interoperability Frameworks, the eGIF work in the UK. At the time we had some big interoperability decisions to make, ones that were fundamental … Continue reading →

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