Category Archives: Interoperability

Azure SDKs, OpenID, Samba, ODF, DII, SAML 2.0, AMQP

I’ve posted extensively about our various interop related efforts over the last year or so, highlighting many of the big steps that we have made in this area, each one incrementally making us a more interoperable platform than before and … Continue reading

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FutureGov ’08

Last week I had the great pleasure of participating in the 2008 FutureGov conference in Bali, like last year the participants represented every country in the region and a set of thought leaders in the field of eGovernment here in … Continue reading

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Silverlight 2.0 & Eclipse

You can’t have missed the fact that we announced the release of Silverlight 2.0 earlier today. Scott Guthrie has the details of the release on his blog; Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2.  You can download Silverlight … Continue reading

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Estonia’s Cyber Security Policy

A year-and-a-half after the coordinated denial-of-service attacks against its government and commercial computer systems, Estonia has released a national cyber security strategy that includes details about the attacks and offers recommendations for preventing attacks in the future and for a … Continue reading

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OpenOffice.org 3.0, reading Open XML files

Here is reminder from Jamie Watson about support for Open XML files in the upcoming release of OpenOffice.org 3.0. The best news about this release, at least for me personally, is that it can read Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML … Continue reading

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jQuery & VS2008

John Resig has a post up this morning discussing the integration of the jQuery JavaScript library into Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax … Continue reading

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DII Workshop on OpenXML Implementation and Interoperability

Doug Mahugh is carrying an announcement of the next in the series of workshops that we’re running in Redmond to support the Document Interoperability Initiative, this time looking at OpenXML Implementation and Interoperability. The workshop will be held on the … Continue reading

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No IPv6, no access to new markets

It has only been over the last year that I have been starting to look at and understand the complexity of moving the world from IPv4 to IPv6. There are a number of compelling reasons for making the move, not … Continue reading

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EMC, IBM & Microsoft, Content Management Interop Services Standard

NetworkWorld is carrying details of a joint announcement from Microsoft, EMC and IBM about a specification that will be collaboratively developed within OASIS to deal with interoperability standards between content management systems. The NetworkWorld story is posted here; EMC, IBM … Continue reading

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HIMMS, Electronic Health Records – Global Report

Delivery of a national Electronic Health Record (EHR) has been one of the target goals carried by many countries health management organizations for a number of years now. For a long time they were little more than a pipedream, troubled … Continue reading

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