Tag Archives: odf

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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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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ODF Implementation Notes for Office 2007 Published

Posted on December 16, 2008 by oliver

My friend and colleague Doug Mahugh appears on Microsoft’s presspass site this morning. He is announcing the publication of our implementation notes for ODF 1.1 in Office 2007. I’m sure he will blog about the details later today. In the … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 29, 2008 by oliver

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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Guiding Principles for Office’s ODF Implementation

Posted on August 8, 2008 by oliver

I’ve linked this from an earlier post, but it probably worth highlighting. Following on from one of the sessions that took place as part of the DII workshop on ODF and Office SP2 in Redmond Doug Mahugh has written up … Continue reading →

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DII Workshop on ODF and SP2 – complete

Posted on July 31, 2008 by oliver

Yesterday’s DII workshop on ODF and SP2 is all done. It was great to be a part of the conversation and to meet many of the people that I have only ever known through blogs and online. From my point … Continue reading →

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ODF Support added to the Microsoft Office System – Additional Reading

Posted on May 23, 2008 by oliver

The laziest type of blog post is one that just quotes a bunch of other people and adds little value in its own right, I tend to use this blog as a combination of a place to document some of … Continue reading →

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More Interop for Microsoft Office (ODF, PDF, PDF/A, XPS)

Posted on May 22, 2008 by oliver

There are no shortage of press and blog stories this morning sharing the news that Microsoft has committed to supporting version 1.1 of the Open Document Format in SP2 of Office 2007. As the announcement happened while those of us … Continue reading →

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The Game Of Jing Pong

Posted on May 6, 2008 by oliver

Almost a week ago now Alex Brown posted the details of his “smoke test” looking at an ODF document produced by OpenOffice 2.4.0, checking conformance with IS26300 with the ODF 1.0 RelaxNG schemas, using Jing. For most of last week nobody … Continue reading →

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