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Back and forth, back and forth… ODF 1.1, ODS and Interoperability
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
ODF 1.1 support now native in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2
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
IS29500, a National Standard in the USA
The last few weeks have been consumed by a great deal more travel than normal, the most significant output of which will be some fun projects that we’re kicking off in London that I should be able to share with … Continue reading
IS29500 (OpenXML) One Year On – Alex Brown
As part of his notes on the recent SC34 plenary meeting in Prague Alex Brown has offered a few comments on his views of OpenXML (and in a small part ODF) one year after the ratification of IS29500 by ISO. … Continue reading
eGovernment Interoperability Frameworks, time for a rethink?
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
Twenty five technology blunders & IPv6
Infoworld’s Neil McAllister has compiled a list of what he counts as the top twenty greatest blunders in tech history. Some of them are not quite so much blunders as they are examples of entrepreneurs or innovations that missed the … Continue reading
Planning a DII workshop in Singapore
Regular readers will be aware of the Document Interoperability Initiative and the associated workshops that the DII has been running around the world. We have been talking for a while now about running one of those workshops in South East … Continue reading
JPEG XR (HD Photo) one step closer to standardization
Bill Crow is blogging again, in his post today he announces that JPEG XR is one step closer to international standardization. The specification is now frozen so there will not be any additional technical changes. Here’s the excerpt from the … Continue reading
ECMA-376 implementation notes for Office 2007 SP2 now published
The Office team have been busy again, this time publishing the implementation notes for the 1st edition of ECMA-376 in Office SP2. Doug Mahugh has a full description of where to find the notes and how to use them; Today … Continue reading
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ECMA approves ECMA-376 Edition 2
From the ECMA press release; On Thursday, December 4, 2008 the Ecma General Assembly voted to approve International Standard (IS) ISO/IEC 29500 (Office Open XML) as ECMA-376 Edition 2. Office Open XML is an open standard for word-processing documents, presentations … Continue reading