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Friday, August 31, 2007 11:03

We’re getting closer to ISO approval of Open XML!

Well, we're almost done with the latest stage in the ISO standardization of Open XML. On Monday, all the national bodies voting on Open XML (I think there are a bit over 100 total!) will submit their current opinion on the Open XML standard. I think that
Posted by BrianJones | 74 Comments
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:14

Ecma meetings in Toronto

Well we're in the middle of our last face to face meeting for Ecma TC45 before the ISO vote on September 2. Novell is hosting it up in Toronto, and it's actually given us a chance to meet some of the developers who are integrating Open XML into Open Office.
Posted by BrianJones | 74 Comments
Friday, August 24, 2007 7:46

US to vote “yes” on Open XML

Similar to what we just saw from Germany earlier this week, the US has voted to approve Open XML as an ISO standard. The result of the vote for "yes with comments" is posted here: http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=vote&committee=INCITS&ballot_id=2341&_UserReference=96EBDF227BF339D246CE4E20
Posted by BrianJones | 7 Comments
Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:21 PM

Back from Winnipeg

I was out for the past week at a family event in Winnipeg. I didn't have any access to e-mail or internet and was pretty surprised to see the number of comments from my post last week . I have to admit I don't think I'll be able to read through and reply
Posted by BrianJones | 44 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:32 PM

Why there’s no “Microsoft” in Open XML

Here are a couple cool screenshots from Stephen McGibbon where he shows an OpenXML spreadsheet file created with Gnumeric (runs on Linux & Windows), and the file is then opened up in Numbers (Apple's new spreadsheet app for the Mac). Gnumeric Numbers
Posted by BrianJones | 100 Comments
Friday, August 10, 2007 12:01

A few interesting links

Sorry for just posting links the past week or so. I haven't had much time to pull anything new together. Hopefully I'll have some more free time when I get back into the office next week. Can anyone be objective about Open XML? Great blog entry from Kyle
Posted by BrianJones | 38 Comments
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:50 PM

iWork ‘08 supports the Open XML formats

I talked the other week about how the iPhone supports the Open XML formats . It's pretty incredible to see such a huge uptake in applications that support the format, given that the standard was finalized less than 9 months ago. The traditional applications
Posted by BrianJones | 21 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:02 PM

Back from vacation with good news

Well, I just got back from vacation this afternoon, and it looks like there were some great developments at the end of the month. I just saw up on Doug's blog that Massachusetts now supports Open XML: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/08/01/massachusetts-etrm-v4-0-recommends-open-xml-and-odf-1-1.aspx
Posted by BrianJones | 23 Comments
 
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