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Friday Afternoon Fun
Yesterday was a big day, filled with lots of goodness on openness and interoperability . Today I thought I'd share some stuff that is a little different than my normal focus, but very interesting nonetheless. I realized last night (thanks to a not-so-gentle Read More...
Microsoft on Interoperability: “Significant, Strategic Change”
Today is a very important day in the history of Microsoft; it's a moment with which I am very happy to be associated. If you didn't see the big news , you can read about it here . But if you just want to skip to the "What does this mean for Office and Read More...
Useful Open XML Information for January 30th
Every day I run across a great deal of useful data for Open XML, so I thought I'd share some of that: David Overton recaps the KB articles that describe how to get Open XML documents indexed using various Microsoft server platforms: Jasper Hedegaard Bojsen Read More...
Regarding Brian Jones’ blog on Binary Document Formats
Brian is in a unique position of being a TC-45 member and Microsoft employee, and his post really illustrates how much work has to go into the Ecma efforts around ISO standardization. I've been in the trenches with Brian on file formats for quite a while Read More...
What does 2008 look like?
I don't have the type of job where I distill global economic indicators into sound bites and loose predictions, but I do spend cycles trying to understand what people are going to be thinking about in the future. For any software product manager, keeping Read More...
File size reduction for Open XML
Open XML documents can help save a significant amount of disk space and bandwidth usage, as demonstrated in this post. Read More...
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