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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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TextGlow Silverlight Open XML Viewer Source Code available

TextGlow, the prototype Open XML Viewer for Silverlight is one of the most popular posts in the brief history of my blog. Intergen , a Microsoft partner in New Zealand, have now elected to offer the source code for this application on OpenXMLDeveloper.org Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 6:30 PM by Gray Knowlton | 8 Comments

DAISY Translator for Word gets an update: Save as MP3 from Word?

In case you missed it yesterday, DAISY Consortium announced the release of the second version of the DAISY Translator for Word . I've said it a few times on my blog , but I did want to say again how much we value our partnership with the DAISY Consortium, Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:57 PM by Gray Knowlton | 8 Comments
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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

Open XML Tools Index

It's great to see the adoption of Open XML accelerating. The Compatibility Pack for Open XML has been downloaded more than 70 million times*. Countless large organizations have taken that single download and deployed that across their organizations. These Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:56 PM by Gray Knowlton | 5 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

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

Unification of ODF and Open XML: An army without a general

It is interesting to witness vocal minority who insist Open XML and ODF become the same format. It must cause them terrible heartburn to know that their recommendation comes against the wishes of the ODF Editor. And yes, Rob, this is Mr. Durusau speaking Read More...
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 5:37 PM by Gray Knowlton | 9 Comments

Bill Gates at the U.S. House of Representatives

Coming on the back of the "Approve" confirmation of the United States national body (guess Bob Sutor couldn't bully them, eh?), it is great to see this video on YouTube . These are the comments by Bill Gates during his testimony to the United States House Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:23 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments
 
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