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Are you landing on this page because you are searching for more information about Producer ? Stumped about where to find details on Virtualization ? Encryption ? Open XML ? Anything else? Submit a comment to this page, and I'll see about pointing you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:29 PM by Gray Knowlton | 3 Comments
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Advertising for two blogs that I read

Dealing with Product Management for both IT Professionals and Developers for Office requires a lot of brain food. I have to do a lot of reading to keep current on the interop discussion, the state of app virtualization, developer tools, solution profiles, Read More...
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 4:34 PM by Gray Knowlton | 0 Comments

Bits on Boxes

One could presumably begin every sentence with the phrase "in this economy…" It seems like more than any other thing, a budget crunch forces us to ask some tough questions about the work we're doing, check to see if we're going to get the results we thought Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:22 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments

Breaking down the 4th wall; the typical end of year fun

Winding down the year causes a variety of reactions from people. Some (like me) have a mild panic when they realize another year has ticked by on the calendar, wondering how they managed to fill all that time between the things they didn't do this year. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 7:02 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments
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Gartner: Open XML “would have been a better choice than ODF as the single standard”

Gartner has published a report about document format standards . They have pointed out a number of key challenges related to document format standards, and illustrate clearly some of the issues that remain from the Open XML and ODF ratification waves. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:03 AM by Gray Knowlton | 7 Comments

Interesting adoption data for Open XML and ODF

I recall this Rob Weir post . "Now we shouldn't be so careless as to say that there are only 2,000 OOXML document in existence, or for that matter only 160,000 ODF documents. Not all documents are posted on the web. In fact, most of them are sitting on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:34 AM by Gray Knowlton | 17 Comments

Moving the Ball Forward on Interoperability

Just referring back to our interoperability principles for a moment , and the ongoing commitment to them . EMC Corporation, IBM and Microsoft today announced a jointly developed specification which uses Web Services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable applications Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:47 PM by Gray Knowlton | 2 Comments

Document Encryption in Office 2007 with Open XML

I was asked recently to comment on "security" of Office 2007. Conversations like this tend to unfold in a certain way… which is to play a fun game of Technology-Tennis, where we volley questions back and forth until we get at the root of the thing… although Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:57 PM by Gray Knowlton | 3 Comments

Redmond ODF workshop feels pretty good

You'll see some blog traffic on this, so I thought I'd throw my own log onto the fire. I attended the ODF workshop yesterday, mainly to sit in the back and watch how things unfolded, but also to learn a little bit myself. I must say that after the conclusion Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:43 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments

Regarding the future of Open XML

As I troll the blogosphere and reporting on Open XML and ODF, I notice a question has surfaced regarding the future of Open XML that is probably worth addressing. Many have asked or speculated that the recent announcement of ODF in Service Pack 2 is an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:03 AM by Gray Knowlton | 4 Comments

PowerPoint Producer 2007 Beta

Today we will release the beta version of Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 via our Connect site. This version of Producer works with PowerPoint 2007, Windows Vista, and IE7, and is also compatible with Open XML. This is a long-awaited Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:54 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments
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Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Updated. April 28, 2009. Office 2007 SP2 is available for download. For more information: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/04/27/office-2007-service-pack-2-kiosk.aspx For those of you who have been following the file format issue for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:34 PM by Gray Knowlton | 25 Comments

DAISY Translator Released!

The Open XML to DAISY Translator is available in release form now. You can download the tool and install it for yourself . It really is great to see this come to fruition. We are grateful for our partnership with DAISY, they have been very helpful in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:20 PM by Gray Knowlton | 2 Comments

Rested, relaxed

It's a pretty rare opportunity to have an entire month away from work. I was getting acquainted to our new family member, taking care of various chores. My lawn never looked so good… a month is a long time. I've improved my skills at caulking, miter cuts, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 4:15 PM by Gray Knowlton | 0 Comments
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Open XML gains ISO approval

The ratification of Open XML as an ISO standard is a great outcome from the post-BRM voting period. Ecma and the Open XML project editors have been working tirelessly to address the comments from national bodies. The consensus achieved during the Ballot Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:07 AM by Gray Knowlton | 2 Comments
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