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Compatibility Pack for Open XML passes 100 million downloads

Sorry for the absence, I took a short break from work and blogging after the birth of our second child. Being a parent is a great blessing. It's just the signing up for 12 more months of 3-hour increments of sleep that I'm not so sure about J . But it's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:48 PM by Gray Knowlton | 17 Comments
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Clearing up a few matters with respect to ODF and SP2

By all accounts last week was a busy one. So much has now gone back and forth on the spreadsheet formula issue that it is easy to get lost in the volume of coverage. As a follow-up to my last post, I’d like to help set some things straight on the topic. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 8:38 PM by Gray Knowlton | 8 Comments
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Rethinking ODF leadership

I can't help but observe the "discussion" underway with respect to spreadsheet interoperability that Rob Weir has started . Essentially Rob is complaining that Microsoft didn't implement the formula namespace of OpenOffice. For the chair of the committee Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:32 PM by Gray Knowlton | 102 Comments
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Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Kiosk, with more staples

Read this first if you're looking for SP2 details: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/04/27/office-2007-service-pack-2-kiosk.aspx Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is getting quite a bit of attention, it is great to see. There has been world-wide Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:25 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Kiosk

UPDATE: The links for the downloads for SP2 are in the process of replicating across mirrors for our WW download center. The download links are expected to be live at around 11:00AM PDT. Update: The download links for SP2 are now live . The Office development Read More...
Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 9:53 PM by Gray Knowlton | 17 Comments

The value of a checkbox as defined by a standard

Just keeping tabs on the state of matters for document format standards. I thought I'd share some of those interesting data points and connect some dots along the way. Ouch . Rich Jelliffe discusses some of the dynamics of the OASIS ODF TC. Rick says: Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:25 PM by Gray Knowlton | 4 Comments

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

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

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

On Harmonization: DIN releases early draft of Open XML / ODF Translation report

Picking up on the harmonization topic again , it appears that DIN has published an early draft of their report on translation between the two formats. The report outlines some preliminary findings in the feature differences between the format specs, and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:36 PM by Gray Knowlton | 0 Comments

ODF Editor Endorses Open XML

"I recommend approval of DIS29500 as an ISO standard."- Patrick Durusau Mr. Patrick Durusau has again commented on Open XML . It is great to see at least part of the ODF camp coming around to consensus on a point which I've been saying for a while (a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:36 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments
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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...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:06 PM by Gray Knowlton | 16 Comments

“Harmonization” vs. “Unification”

Patrick Durusau, Editor of the ODF specification(s) has offered another post in the vein of "can't we all just get along?" For all the discussion however, these documents from Mr. Durusau indicate a good path forward. This path is similar (the same) as Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:21 PM by Gray Knowlton | 5 Comments
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