Category Archives: Standards

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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IS29500, a National Standard in the USA

Posted on April 21, 2009 by oliver

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 →

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IS29500 (OpenXML) One Year On – Alex Brown

Posted on April 10, 2009 by oliver

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 →

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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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Twenty five technology blunders & IPv6

Posted on February 23, 2009 by oliver

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 →

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Planning a DII workshop in Singapore

Posted on January 31, 2009 by oliver

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 →

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JPEG XR (HD Photo) one step closer to standardization

Posted on January 31, 2009 by oliver

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 →

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ECMA-376 implementation notes for Office 2007 SP2 now published

Posted on January 18, 2009 by oliver

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

Posted on December 18, 2008 by oliver

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 →

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