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April 2007 - Posts

A few updates on the OpenXML formats

Sorry I've been offline for the past couple weeks. I've been meaning to post some content for awhile but I've been swamped with Office 14 planning. I was trying to stay up on the comments from my last post , but still ended up slacking there as well (I'm

Breaking free of the politics

It's good to see the latest news out of Malaysia , where they have decided to take a step back from the previous rush towards mandating ODF. It was clear that many of the anti-OpenXML folks out there were pushing too hard on the process and were actually

Visual tool for developers working with the Open XML formats

For those of you who are working with Open XML files, there is a great tool out there on Codeplex called the " Package Explorer ". It's an open source project that's already pretty far along, and it was started by Wouter Van Vugt . Wouter is one of the

DIS 29500 (Office Open XML) moves on to the next phase

Ecma just posted a press release this morning announcing that Office Open XML has now officially moved on to the next phase in the ISO standardization process: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/PressReleases/PR_TC45_April2007.htm This means that
 
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