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have just been published on the Document Interop Initiative (DII) site :- Welcome to the Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Open Document Format (ODF) implementer notes site . Here you will find detailed information about Office’s support for each section...
I was just in the day 2 keynote here at PDC2008 in LA. Steve Sinofsky confirmed that Wordpad now has support for OpenXML and ODF. I’ll update this post later today with screenshots.
In February 2007 I noted that Craig Mundie announced collaboration on the use of Windows CardSpace with the OpenID 2.0 specification. A year later, in February 2008, Microsoft joined the board of the OpenID foundation. Beginning today, Windows Live ID...
Today’s announcement at PDC2008 of Windows Azure and the Windows Azure Platform is, unsurprisingly, all over the news. There are fact sheets galore, whitepapers, transcripts, videos etc available on the PressPass Event page , I thought I’d point to this ...
An interesting post from the Samba Team’s Andrew Bartlett from which I will pull one or two excerpts to give a flavour but encourage you to read the original. Andrew writes:- Over the 2 weeks at the end of September 2008, I attended two interoperability...
My friend and colleague Sam Ramji has just posted the news that Microsoft has been invited to join the AMQP Working Group by the six founding members. To avoid any confusion, this announcement is about open middleware rather than email systems...
According to the press release , Silverlight already reaches one in four consumers worldwide. This is also noteworthy (my links), “Microsoft also announced further support of open source communities by funding advanced Silverlight development capabilities...
Today I am in a rather overcast Redmond for Microsoft's workshop on ODF support in Office 2007 SP2. (Dough Mahugh wrote about this workshop a few weeks ago.) A few folk have blogged that they're here, and I am sure others will too, but there's one notable...
I was just looking at IBM's latest annual SEC 10-K report . "Open Standards" are listed in the "Key Business Drivers" section with the following note (my emphasis):- Open Standards The broad adoption of open standards is essential to the computing model...
Another of my colleagues, this time Andrea Valboni in Italy, has just written about an interesting project kicking off there to extend the Apache POI Java libraries to include OpenXML. Andrea writes Microsoft and Sourcesense, a company delivering consultancy...
Microsoft just launched a new online resource and released two new open-source accessibility testing tools for developers who want to create accessible and assistive technology products that make it easier for everyone —including people with impairments...
notice also the domain highlighting.
I am pleased to report that Microsoft has confirmed that IE8 will use "Standards Mode" (and pass the Acid2 test) by default. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, has written about the change on the IEBlog . We’ve decided that IE8...
Novell's Kevin Barney blogs about the availability and benefits of the Office Open XML/OpenDocument format translators for presentations and spreadsheets in Novell's Open PR blog :- You know they’ve been in the works, but the Office Open XML/OpenDocument...
Sun and Microsoft have taken the time to certify and optimize Microsoft Windows® performance on Sun’s x64 servers, workstations and storage technologies. So, there is nothing stopping you from populating your data center and desktops with cutting-edge...
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