Brian Jones: Office Solutions
I'm Brian Jones, the group program manager of the Office Solutions Framework team.
No more anonymous comments?
Lately I've been wondering if the discussions in the comments portion of my blog would be more...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/31/2008
Links for 1-31-08
A few interesting links I wanted to point out: Content Reuse with Open XML and XSLT – Alexander Falk...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/31/2008
Buzzword now supports reading and writing Open XML
We had all the noise last week about IBM supporting Open XML in a number of their products. Today I...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/30/2008
OASIS ODF committee considering joining DIN to help with translation and interop
This is very cool. It looks like the OASIS committee is looking at coming on board to help out with...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/29/2008
Links for 1-25-08
A few interesting and entertaining links to end the week: IBM's Stance Against OpenXML Is...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/25/2008
Translating OpenXML into DAISY
Reed announced today that the first alpha build of the OpenXML to DAISY translator is now available...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/25/2008
Improvements in Password Hashing
There were a number of comments raised by national bodies about the password hashing (encryption)...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/23/2008
Links 1-23-08
A few interesting links out there today: A Closer Look At Those "Single Standard" Policy Mandates –...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/23/2008
Reuse of existing standards
In looking through some of the work Ecma has done to identify in a clear way how existing standards...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/22/2008
suppressTopSpacingWP – Compat Settings #1
I know a lot of people were worried about a subset of the compatibility settings in wordprocessingML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/18/2008
Add new functionality now or later?
One thing we had to think about in TC45 when dealing with the national body comments was how to deal...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/18/2008
Google support for 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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/17/2008
More info on DAISY and OpenXML
Very cool video with the DAISY Consortium's Secretary General George Kerscher discussing DAISY and...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/17/2008
"yip-yip-yahoo" (2)
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/16/2008
Mapping documents in the binary format (.doc; .xls; .ppt) to the Open XML format
I wanted to call everyone's attention to a few interesting developments in Ecma's proposed...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/16/2008
Responses now complete for all 3,522 comments
Yesterday night Ecma TC45 and the Editor of DIS 29500 were able to publish the final drop of our...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/14/2008
"yip-yip-yahoo"!
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/13/2008
Gray Knowlton discusses the compatibility pack statistics
Gray just recently started blogging and has an interesting post about the number of downloads we've...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/26/2007
500+ national body comments posting today
Ecma is posting a new status update today. We’re in progress updating 500+ new national body...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/21/2007
Why all the secrecy?
Alex Brown, a long time member of SC34 and the convener of the upcoming BRM for DIS 29500 provided...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/13/2007
Office 2007 SP1 is now available
SP1 for Office 2007 is now available for download. One of the interesting fixes we made was based on...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/12/2007
Over halfway there… including some positive changes to the Open XML standard
I had mentioned that the members of Ecma TC45 all met last week in Kyoto to continue working through...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/11/2007
IBM’s Rob Weir makes it clear… he wants war
Last spring, we saw some positive developments in the file format world. We started to reach a...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/09/2007
Season's greetings everyone
I'm heading home from Kyoto tomorrow after some very productive Ecma meetings. I think you'll all be...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/07/2007
Weird Moment of the Day
I saw this blog from one of the current chairs of the ODF committee in OASIS:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/07/2007
It’s hard damned work trying to make this process look so bad
Ecma TC45 and the project editor are making great progress in the resolution of comments we received...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/04/2007
Standards expert Jan van den Beld now blogging
Jan van den Beld, a long time member of the standards community and former Secretary General of Ecma...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/27/2007
Interoperability Track at XML Conference 2007
For those of you planning on being in the Boston area next week, you should plan on checking out the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/26/2007
Update on Open XML’s ISO progress
I wanted to provide a bit of an update on how things are going in TC45 as we look through the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/19/2007
Accessibility of OpenXML
Well, I've come back up for air briefly and wanted to quickly point out to folks a really important...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/14/2007
Open XML links for 10-17-2007
I'm pretty knee deep in work for the next version of Office, as well as the ISO comments on OpenXML,...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/17/2007
New Beta of WordPerfect with Open XML and ODF support
Corel just announced the availability of a new beta version of WordPerfect that provides support for...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/03/2007
Links 09-28-2007
Well I thought I would have time to work more on the FAQ the past couple weeks, but that was naive...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/28/2007
A new FAQ page now available
OK, I'll admit its pretty lame that it's been almost two weeks since my last post. I've been pretty...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/17/2007
Frequently Asked Questions
Andrew Sayers had a great suggestion that I should have a page set up that gives an overview of the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/17/2007
Another word-processor supporting Open XML
It looks like AbiWord, which is an open source word processing application is now working on Open...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/04/2007
We’re getting closer to ISO approval of Open XML!
Well, we're almost done with the latest stage in the ISO standardization of Open XML. On Monday, all...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/31/2007
Ecma meetings in Toronto
Well we're in the middle of our last face to face meeting for Ecma TC45 before the ISO vote on...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/28/2007
US to vote “yes” on Open XML
Similar to what we just saw from Germany earlier this week, the US has voted to approve Open XML as...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/24/2007
Back from Winnipeg
I was out for the past week at a family event in Winnipeg. I didn't have any access to e-mail or...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/23/2007
Why there’s no “Microsoft” in Open XML
Here are a couple cool screenshots from Stephen McGibbon where he shows an OpenXML spreadsheet file...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/15/2007
A few interesting links
Sorry for just posting links the past week or so. I haven't had much time to pull anything new...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/10/2007
iWork ‘08 supports the Open XML formats
I talked the other week about how the iPhone supports the Open XML formats. It's pretty incredible...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/08/2007
Back from vacation with good news
Well, I just got back from vacation this afternoon, and it looks like there were some great...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/01/2007
Going offline for a week
I'll be offline for the next week or so. Sorry if I don't answer your e-mails or comments during...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/20/2007
US will take a vote on “yes with comments”
Doug Mahugh has another update on what's going on with the US review of the Open XML standard....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/20/2007
Jason Matusow talks about the US vote
Jason is on the standards team in Microsoft, and he has a blog post discussing some of the moves to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/19/2007
iPhone supports Open XML
This is pretty cool. I already talked about how there is support for the open xml formats on the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/17/2007
Open XML news
Here are a few interesting links related to the Open XML formats US technical committee reaches...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/17/2007
Importing your XML into a spreadsheet
I'm going to try to get back on top of all the e-mails folks have been sending me. If you've...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/16/2007