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Jan 24, 2008
Imagine Cup Interoperability Award – Now Accepting Entries — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
The Interoperability Award Contest that I told you about on the Channel 8 interview back in December is now (finally) accepting entries on the Imagine Cup Website. Because it took longer than we anticipated to get the submission rules approved and posted...
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Jan 23, 2008
Improvements in Password Hashing — Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
There were a number of comments raised by national bodies about the password hashing (encryption) support defined in Open XML. There were some extra hurdles that we had initially put to ensure that we could upgrade an existing binary documents properly. ...
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Jan 19, 2008
IBM and Google Support for Open XML — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
I have read a number of blogs posts and articles recently that demonstrate the groundswell of support for the Office Open XML formats. Most impressive in this list of course is support by both Google and IBM (that's right – I said IBM).
Gray Knowlton ha...
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Jan 18, 2008
Google support for Open XML formats — Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
I noticed this last week but forgot to blog about it. If you do a google search and the result is an Open XML file (.docx; .xlsx; .pptx) they give you the ability to view them in the browser using their own rendering technology. They support all three fo...
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Jan 17, 2008
More info on DAISY and OpenXML — Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
Very cool video with the DAISY Consortium's Secretary General George Kerscher discussing DAISY and the project for converting Open XML into DAISY: http://blogs.inquirer.net/techaddicts/2008/01/17/ivdo-daisy-makes-reading-documents-easier-for-the-blind/
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Jan 16, 2008
IE8 Interoperability – Passing the ACID2 Test — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
I just ran across something from December that is of major significance to web developers WW. The Internet Explorer team has announced that the current build of IE8 running in Standards Mode will correctly pass the ACID2 rendering test.
You will be ab...
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Jan 16, 2008
Back In Action + Burton Group Report on Open XML / ODF — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
After taking a month off for parental leave over the holidays I am back at work. A lot has been happening over this period with the Open XML ISO standardization effort as the process moves closer to the final Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM). All exciti...
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Jan 08, 2008
Open XML in Japan — Doug Mahugh
Open XML Book. Yoko Girier of Toshiba has written a book that provides an overview of the Open XML formats in Japanese. As a member of Ecma TC45, the technical committee that created the Ecma 376 specification, Yoko offers a well-informed view of the ...
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Aug 24, 2007
Creating RESTful Web Services with Windows Communication Foundation — TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog
Learn how to use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to easily create "RESTful" Web Services in .NET 3.5 that can leverage the simplicity, ubiquity, and scalability of Web programming. http://www.developer.com/net/article.php/3695436 Window...
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Aug 09, 2007
Great article on SUN and Microsoft Interop — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
Check out this article on www.sun.com today. I love the opening line about the mythical homogeneous data center. It is a perfect description of the world in which we live and why we are spending so much time these days thinking pragmatically about inte...
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Jul 26, 2007
Microsoft launches www.microsoft.com/opensource — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
Today at OSCON, Microsoft announced a new website on Microsoft.com that outlines our perspective and strategy regarding the Open Source development methodology. Here you will be able to find information about a wide variety of ways that Microsoft is part...
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Jul 26, 2007
Microsoft launches www.microsoft.com/opensource — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
Today at OSCON, Microsoft announced a new website on Microsoft.com that outlines our perspective and strategy regarding the Open Source development methodology. Here you will be able to find information about a wide variety of ways that Microsoft is part...
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Jul 16, 2007
Web Services Interop Plug-fest - 10-12 July 2007 — TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog
On July 10-12, Microsoft hosted the fourth successful WS-* plug-fest with a total of nine web services stacks from seven interop partners (BEA, Higgins, Iona, Oracle, Sun, VeriSign, WSO2/Apache). The scenarios tested included both the submitted web serv...
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May 31, 2007
Java Open XML API Project officially launched! — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
The Java API library project started by Julien Chable (Wygwam France) has officially launched at http://www.openxml4j.org. Java developers now have a nice set of methods which will allow them to create rich Open XML documents for consumption by office pr...
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May 31, 2007
Java Open XML API Project officially launched! — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
The Java API library project started by Julien Chable (Wygwam France) has officially launched at http://www.openxml4j.org. Java developers now have a nice set of methods which will allow them to create rich Open XML documents for consumption by office pr...
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May 30, 2007
Welcome Adam Wiener to the Blogosphere! — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
I would like to welcome my colleague Adam Wiener to the blogosphere. Adam is a XML and data guru and is currently driving some great interoperability work in the identity space that he will be discussing regularly (I hope) on his blog. Please take a mo...
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May 30, 2007
Welcome Adam Wiener to the Blogosphere! — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
I would like to welcome my colleague Adam Wiener to the blogosphere. Adam is a XML and data guru and is currently driving some great interoperability work in the identity space that he will be discussing regularly (I hope) on his blog. Please take a mo...
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May 30, 2007
Understanding WS-Federation — TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog
This new whitepaper on MSDN describes two scenarios that exercise selected features of WS-Federation in different ways. An enterprise scenario considers bidding on supply-chain contracts, and a healthcare scenario explores providing access to patient re...
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May 01, 2007
Web Services Aren't Slow — TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog
Here is some benchmark data that should dispel the urban myth that Web Service technology is slow. A recent MSDN whitepaper describes some testing to compare WCF performance against the existing .NET Remoting and WSE 2.0/3.0 technologies, and reached the...
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Apr 26, 2007
WCF Dynamic Proxy — TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog
I found this great sample on the .NET Framework 3.0 community site showing how to create and use a dynamic proxy using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). The DynamicProxy allows you to create the dynamic WCF client at runtime by specifying the WSDL...
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Apr 25, 2007
The Internet Service Bus — TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog
Yesterday, Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of a new range of BizTalk Services. By building on the idea of an Enterprise Service Bus and leveraging Microsoft's Internet-ready Web Service technology in .NET 3.0, this creates...
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Dec 31, 2007
Open XML blogging in 2007 — Doug Mahugh
It's been quite a year for those who have been blogging about the Open XML file formats. Here's a look back at some of the stories I remember best from this busy year ...
January:
Brian Jones provides an overview of Passing the Open XML standard off t...
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Dec 20, 2007
Symbian support for DOCX/XLSX — Doug Mahugh
Quickoffice Premier 5.0 is the first mobile productivity software suite to support Office 2007 file formats on the S60 platform.
The Symbian S60 platform is used by Nokia, Samsung, and many other manufacturers, and you'll find S60 smartphones in the han...
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Dec 04, 2007
XML 2007 Day 1 — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
Despite missing 2 flights yesterday (one – snow in my driveway, and one - United Airlines "issue"), I arrived here bright and early at 7:00 am this morning (14 hours later than planned) on 4 hours of sleep (5 hours less than planned).
The joint...
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Nov 22, 2007
More details on Interop Track @ XML 2007 Conference — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
We have secured a number of great well-known speakers from the industry to help lead the discussions at this year's XML 2007 conference! It will be a fun event and hopefully an enlightening one as well.
The current schedule & speaker list for the De...
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Nov 22, 2007
More details on Interop Track @ XML 2007 Conference — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
We have secured a number of great well-known speakers from the industry to help lead the discussions at this year's XML 2007 conference! It will be a fun event and hopefully an enlightening one as well.
The current schedule & speaker list for the De...
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Nov 06, 2007
Microsoft Sponsoring Interoperability Track at XML 2007 — Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog
IDEAlliance yesterday announced that Microsoft will be sponsoring an interoperability track at this year's XML 2007 conference in Boston, MA Dec 3-6 (interop track taking place Tuesday the 4th). Details about the sessions can be found in the press rele...
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Jun 08, 2010
Open-source tools aid Microsoft Outlook access
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Jun 07, 2010
Bing 404 for WordPress Released
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May 28, 2010
Outlook lock-in could vanish with new open source projects
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