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February 2008 - Posts

Friday, February 29, 2008 10:22 AM

BRM is done... time to sleep :-)

Well, the BRM is over and I can only describe the week as a lot of technical work and a lot of great people I was lucky enough to meet and exchange ideas with. The objective of the BRM was to work with all of the National Body delegations in the room
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:13 AM

Big Interoperability Announcement

I'm traveling right now and don't have a lot of time to go really deep on this, but today's interoperability announcement is great for Microsoft for a lot of reasons. Gray Knowlton posted on this today , it's a great read if you want to understand how
Posted by BrianJones | 22 Comments
Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:15 AM

British Library now hosting the Office Binary file format specifications

For folks excited by the availability of the binary file format specs last week , but concerned about the long term availability of those documents, this should be good news. The British Library has archived, and now made them available to the public:
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Friday, February 15, 2008 6:33 PM

Binary Documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) and Translator Project Site are now live

As promised last month , the binary documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) is now live. In addition to this, the project to create an open source translator (binary -> Open XML) has now been formed on sourceforge, and the development roadmap has been published.
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Friday, February 08, 2008 5:42 PM

Links Feb 8, 2008

A few interesting links today: Burton Group's Response to the ODF Alliance (Part 1) – A great set of responses to some of the ODF Alliance's criticisms of the Burton Groups " What's Up .DOC " report. Native Open XML support on Apple's Mac OS X – Cool
Posted by BrianJones | 17 Comments
Saturday, February 02, 2008 7:07 AM

YouTube video of Open XML on an iPhone

Here's a cool video showing the rich Open XML support available on the iPhone: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oNcAjS7LqKM There are a number of videos available related to Open XML if you are interested: http://youtube.com/user/OpenXML -Brian
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Friday, February 01, 2008 5:01 PM

Sun’s view of standards

Interesting post from Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/01/31/sun-standards-as-quot-strategic-weapon-quot.aspx -Brian
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Friday, February 01, 2008 3:57 AM

Is it jetlag?

I know Rob Weir has been traveling a lot these days lobbying against Open XML across the world, so when I saw this post yesterday I assumed it must be jetlag. I think he completely misunderstood some of the responses from Ecma related to the issue of
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