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Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:04 AM

More on yesterday’s ODF announcement

Gray Knowlton had a great post yesterday laying out more of the details on the "Save as ODF" functionality that will be built in natively for Office 2007 SP2: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/05/21/microsoft-adds-save-as-odf-to-office-2007-service-pack-2.aspx
Posted by BrianJones | 17 Comments
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
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:24 AM

Office 2007 SP1 is now available

SP1 for Office 2007 is now available for download. One of the interesting fixes we made was based on some problems we found when you tried to use the ODF translator that Sun has built for Office. Malte Timmermann pointed out on his blog back in the summer
Posted by BrianJones | 9 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 6:22 PM

Microsoft Office *not* dumped by Science and Nature

I saw this article today, and wanted to make sure that folks weren't confused about the latest with some of the publishers out there like Science as well as Nature. As I said last week, Murray and I have been talking with them trying to better understand
Posted by BrianJones | 20 Comments
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:05 PM

Open XML in Science and Nature; Deploying Office 2007; and more…

Here are a few interesting links I came across this week: Open XML in Science and Nature - Murray Sargent gives another update on the discussions we've been having with the folks from Science as well as Nature. They have some really cool publishing processes,
Posted by BrianJones | 51 Comments
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:52 AM

Get CompanyWeb to work with new extensions

David Overton has a blog post describing how folks with SBS can make a few updates so they get the new icons registered with the new extensions (as well as proper behavior with the open control): http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2007/03/13/how-to-get-companyweb-windows-sharepoint-services-v2-to-work-with-office-2007.aspx
Posted by BrianJones | 0 Comments
Friday, February 23, 2007 6:17 PM

Bulk upgrade your binary files to OpenXML

The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) was released earlier this week. It's a tool that helps folks who are going to manage and upgrade to the latest version of Office (2007). Among other things, it will do a scan of your network to identify Office
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:02 AM

The power of data-view separation in your documents

There is an excellent post over on the Word team blog that goes into details on how the new content controls feature (when parred with XML mapping) allows for powerful data-view separation in you wordprocessing documents. I've talked many times about
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 6:17 PM

Links - Jan 05 2007

Hope everyone had a great first week of 2007. I'm just trying to adjust to being back at work myself. Here are a handful of interesting links from the week: The enchanted office This was brought to my attention yesterday. It's a comic meant to show the
Posted by BrianJones | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:01 PM

“Directions on Microsoft” Report on Open XML formats

There is a new report out from Directions on Microsoft that discusses the new Open XML formats, and the impact on Office customers. It discusses the benefits that organizations will see from the formats, as well as some deployment recommendations. Here
Posted by BrianJones | 8 Comments
Friday, December 01, 2006 4:14 PM

Friday Thoughts 12-01-2006

I wanted to point out a few interesting things that have popped up over the past couple weeks: IDC Report on Open Standards Interesting study by IDC where they polled companies in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark to try and gauge the level of interest
Posted by BrianJones | 6 Comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:29 PM

Simple SpreadsheetML file (part 2 of 3)

This is a continuation on the " Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 1 " post I made a couple weeks ago. In that post we created a SpreadsheetML file that consisted of a simple table with 3 columns and 3 rows of data (plus a header row). The table looked like
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:08 PM

Week off

As I just mentioned in a comment I left in last week's post, I'm actually attempting to take a bit of a break this week. We actually wrapped up the development work on Office 2007 last Friday. It's been a huge release, and it's really exciting to see
Posted by BrianJones | 6 Comments
Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:50 AM

Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 1 of 3

I posted a bunch of "Intro to SpreadsheetML" posts about a year or so ago, but those were all based on the Office XP spreadsheetML format. I think an updated series based on the Open XML standard is long overdue. I'll start off just building a simple
Posted by BrianJones | 6 Comments
Friday, October 27, 2006 2:29 PM

Friday thoughts (Oct 27, 2006)

I'd been meaning to post a write-up on how to create a simple SpreadsheetML document from scratch, but just haven't had the time this week to pull it all together. Hopefully I'll get that out early next week. I had already done a similar post for WordprocessingML
Posted by BrianJones | 10 Comments
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