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The work with OpenXML over the last year has, in my opinion, done a number of good things for Microsoft as a company. A highlight for me has been the number of people inside the company who have taken it upon themselves to blog and share their thoughts, their expertise and their experience externally.

Mauricio Ordoñez is the most recent voice to join the conversation, bringing with him a wealth of information about how OpenXML is being implemented, the tools that those implementations are using and the ISVs that are working with the specification.

His first couple of posts have got things off to a good start.

He started out by highlighting the VSTO Power Tools, specifically the inclusion of the OPC Package Explorer;

The Visual Studio team has just released a set of add-ons called VSTO Power Tools. Andrew Whitechapel wrote about it in his blog. The Power Tools have a treat for Open XML developers, the Open XML Package Editor.

Today he added more to the current debate by taking a look at one of the many documents that have recently been published by the ODF Alliance. This is a group who originally had a charter to promote the use and development of the OASIS Open Document Format, they seem to be spending more time lobbying against OpenXML at this point and much less time supporting what appeared to be their original charter.

The ODF Alliance took some time to comb through the proposed dispositions that the DIS29500 project editor put forwards in preparation for the Ballot resolution Meeting in Geneva this week, then for one reason or another they chose to highlight 10 random dispositions. As a courtesy, Mauricio responded to that document and presents his own analysis of those same ten dispositions.

Keep an eye on his blog, I know he will have a lot to offer over the coming months…