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ODF 1.1 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2

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 of the OASIS ODF 1.1 specification . These...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 12-16-2008
Windows 7 Wordpad supports OpenXML and ODF

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.

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-28-2008
Windows Live ID Commits to Support OpenID

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 is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-28-2008
Interoperability with the Windows Azure Platform

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 whitepaper written by David Chappell titled...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-28-2008
An interoperability status update from the Samba project

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 events in the US, one in Santa Clara and another...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-25-2008
Microsoft joins Advanced Message Queuing Protocol WG

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. The current participants in the AMQP Working Group...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-24-2008
Silverlight 2 will be available tomorrow .. with new Eclipse tools too

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 with the Eclipse Foundation ’s integrated development...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-13-2008
Workshop on ODF support in Office 2007 SP2

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 absence that alarmed me - IBM. I've confirmed...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 07-30-2008
IBM's SEC 10-K report: Open Standards? Interoperability?

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 for an on demand business and is a significant...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 03-28-2008
Italy: New project to bring OpenXML to Apache POI

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 on open source software, reached today an...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 03-19-2008

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