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Office and SharePoint 2010 Highlights from SharePoint Conference

SharePoint Conference was a very busy time for us. We were finally able to pull back the curtain on many of the capability areas of 2010, and for a lot of folks, this was the first opportunity to see what all the excitement is about. There is a lot of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:41 AM by Gray Knowlton | 0 Comments

Resurfacing

There's no doubt that Microsoft offers perhaps the best benefits package in this industry, particularly for those people with families. One of those benefits related to child birth is an extended paternity leave which goes well above and beyond what is Read More...
Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 5:12 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments

Office 2007 SP2 and PDF version support - @Pot&Kettle

I wanted to discuss a specific coverage area for Office 2007 SP2. I was recently directed toward the Acrobat Team blog , which is pointing out some of the differences between Adobe Acrobat 9 and Office 2007 SP2. As explained in the post, Adobe has worked Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 8:56 PM by Gray Knowlton | 3 Comments

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

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

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

Open Office to support Open XML?

Interesting post here: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html "Microsoft Office 2007 file format support Microsoft Office 2007 (also called Office Open XML) file formats include .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx. Despite the similarity Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:23 PM by Gray Knowlton | 11 Comments
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Ooh’s and Aaah’s for March 19th

Ooh.. (should I say Ouch!): http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/03/how_many_defects_remain_answer.html . Once again Rob Weir is defeated (handily). "One of the constant themes over the last year has been the theme of panic. QUICK: You only have one Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:17 PM by Gray Knowlton | 6 Comments
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Open XML Scorecard for St. Patrick's Day 2008

I used to live in Dublin (on Mount Street, just above Grafton Street)... I spent many, many days in the Oval pub just off O'Connell street, and I remember every one of those days fondly. Spending two St. Patrick's day holidays in front of the St. Patrick's Read More...
Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 6:17 PM by Gray Knowlton | 1 Comments
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Within Minutes

I can keep this post nice and short. Patrick Durusau has responded to some pretty harsh accusations from Rob Weir . (I guess I got the answer to my question about the disconnect within the ODF TC .) I guess Nick Tsilas should feel vindicated , at least Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:57 PM by Gray Knowlton | 4 Comments
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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

Silverlight viewer for Open XML

Updated: The Source Code for this tool is now available : Here's an interesting development (anyone for pun-free Fridays?) Intergen , a New Zealand based company , has developed a viewer for Open XML documents. You can get take a look at TextGlow for Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 4:04 PM by Gray Knowlton | 7 Comments
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