"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf." – Jon Kabat-Zinn
"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf." – Jon Kabat-Zinn
You’ve most likely seen a lot of speculations on the ISO vote for Open XML. Brian Jones, part of the Office Productteam and heavily involved in Open XML officially confirms the vote : APPROVED (This is no April Foolsday joke…
I’m closely monitoring the news .. Peter O’Kelly quoted Reuters who aparently quotes the ISO comittee … fingers crossed … The saga continues… at least until Wednesday The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) said it would reveal on Wednesday whether…
Another big step in interoperability between social networking platform and Microsoft’s Live platform. This new way of interop is much safer for end-users and its easier to invite your friends from other networks … … Today Microsoft is announcing some…
Guy Creese posted about an interesting move by OpenOffice.org; the support of OOXML … … According to a post at OpenOffice.org Ninja, OpenOffice.org 3.0 is planning to support the reading and writing of OOXML documents. This will not occur in…
Mooi en veel besproken project. Het is aan Sogeti gegund en de oplossing is gebaseerd op het Microsoft platform … … Sogeti Nederland gaat, met HP als onderaannemer, voor de rijksoverheid een nieuwe digitale samenwerkingsomgeving inrichten en beheren. Dat is…
Microsoft today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice. Audio Recording & Transcript: Conference Call with Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Bob…
New developements around OOXML … … Microsoft today launched an open source software project on the SourceForge site, aimed at developing conversion tools that will translate Microsoft Office binary files to Office Open XML (OOXML) file formats. According to Vijay…
Theo blogde gisteren over de verwarring rond ‘Goud’ de werkplek aanbesteding van de overheid, welke op dit moment in de aandacht staat in verband met het recente debat dat hierover is gevoerd. … Na een periode van rust in…
There’s al lot of talk about OpenXML and PDF. Microsoft colleague Gray Knowlton has created an excellent blogpost about OpenXML. Gray is a Group Product Manager for the Microsoft Office system, so he’s close to the fire as we…
This is an impressive (and challenging ?) group to start of your iniative that’s for sure : The OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft Corp., Verisign, and Yahoo! have joined as its first corporate board members. With these companies’…