Doug Mahugh

Microsoft Interoperability Team

document formats legislation in the US

Shane Peterson, who has been following document formats legislation in the US for some time, has a...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/16/2007

XML@Boeing

There are two rules of blogging that the experts seem to all agree on: don't don't blog about the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/16/2007

Andy Updegrove's "Meanwhile, Back in Minnesota: Your Chance to Help" provides information about how...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/11/2007

OMPM tips

As more organizations are moving to Office 2007 and the Open XML formats, I've started to hear more...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/04/2007

WordPerfect Office beta supports Open XML

Interesting news out of Ottawa today: Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/03/2007

Oliver Bell's "Open XML: Custom Schema Support" describes how Open XML features like OPC (Open...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/03/2007

Conditional Formatting

Scott Ruble has a post on on the Excel team blog today, asking for feedback on the databars...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/02/2007

OPC implementation test documents

In my presentation at TechEd SEA yesterday, I explained the importance of writing code against the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 09/12/2007

While my colleagues are all attending the company meeting today (or so their OOF messages say :-)),...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 09/06/2007

Open XML workshop videos

MSDN has published the complete set of videos of the San Francisco Open XML developer workshop that...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/29/2007

US passes motion for "Yes with comments"

The INCITS executive board in the US has passed a motion to vote "Yes with comments" on DIS 29500,...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/24/2007

Server-side document creation

Erika Ehrli has a great post on "Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions" that shows how...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/23/2007

Open XML development book

Wouter Van Vugt's book "Open XML Explained" is now available for free download from...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/14/2007

Developer workshop content

If you've attended one of the Open XML Developer workshops that I and others have delivered in the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/10/2007

Breaking out of the rut

The Open XML standardization debate has been going on long enough that there are some recurring...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/09/2007

Nuance OmniPage supports Open XML. Nuance's best-selling OmniPage Professional 16 has been released...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/06/2007

Massachusetts ETRM V4.0 recommends Open XML and ODF 1.1

A month ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts posted a draft of its revised Enterprise Technical...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/01/2007

Following the rules in Portugal

There has been a lot of discussion of the Portugal technical committee (TC173) in the last week, and...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/31/2007

We're having TechReady here in Seattle this week, which is a great chance to catch up with...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/26/2007

Spinning the ISO process in the US

The various members of INCITS here in the US have been busy the last two weeks, with the technical...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/24/2007

INCITS Executive Board to vote on "Approval with comments"

The INCITS executive board has been meeting this week, and today they decided to issue a ballot for...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/20/2007

US technical committee reaches deadlock

Last Friday, the INCITS V1 technical committee had a meeting via teleconference to try to reach...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/16/2007

Open XML solution demonstration at WPC

Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference is taking place this week in Denver, and John Peltonen of...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/09/2007

Home page changes and ISO dates

I updated a few things here on the home page today, to get organized in anticipation of writing much...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/06/2007

I've been too busy to post a list of Open XML links for a while, and a lot has been going on the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/02/2007

San Francisco workshop

We had an Open XML developer workshop in San Francisco this week, with a couple of new twists. One...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/22/2007

Professor Flavio Soares da Silva from the University of Sao Paulo has an interesting article on...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/13/2007

Ted Neward's InfoQ article "Using Java to Crack Office 2007" provides a nice overview of Open XML...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/06/2007

Microsoft SDK for Open XML

I was so busy with activities related to the announcement of the new SDK yesterday that I didn't get...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/05/2007

Spreadsheet formatting. Brian Jones's post on "Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 3 - Formatting" is a...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/01/2007

Office Live developer workshops

While I've been busy with Open XML workshops, my friends and colleagues Don Campbell and Rohit Puri...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/22/2007

UOF translator project

"There is a Chinese curse which says, "May he live in interesting times."Like it or not, we live in...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/22/2007

Custom schemas revisited

I've seen some signs of confusion about custom schema support lately. For example, I've seen a...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/19/2007

DIN working group on document translation

“Instead of either/or, we’re enabling interoperability between various document standards” -- Gerd...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/15/2007

San Francisco Open XML workshop

Are you working on an Open XML development project? Or interested in learning the fundamentals of...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/14/2007

The OpenXmlCommunity.org site has come online, listing supporters of Open XML. Brian Jones has the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/09/2007

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