Doug Mahugh
Microsoft Interoperability Team
WordCamp Victoria 2012
Over the weekend, I attended my first WordPress event: WordCamp Victoria 2012. It was a great...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/16/2012
OASIS ODF 1.2 Approved
As expected, OASIS members have approved ODF 1.2 as an OASIS Standard. Although the official...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/01/2011
New DII website locations
I’ve heard from a couple of people who have noticed that the Document Interoperability Initiative...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/13/2011
Microsoft Office Binary File Format Validator
My colleagues on the Office Interoperability team have been hard at work on a tool that will help...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/13/2011
libOPC version 0.0.1 released
The first release of libOPC, a new API for Open XML development, was published on Codeplex last...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 04/19/2011
Release V2 of Open XML document generation system
Eric White posted yesterday release V2 of his simple Open XML document generation system, a...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/30/2011
XML Prague 2011
I attended the XML Prague conference over the weekend, where I had the opportunity to see some great...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/29/2011
Change Tracking in ODF
When we implemented support for ODF in Office 2007, we decided to not support the limited...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/16/2011
Can progress be standardized?
There’s a fundamental challenge that many standards maintenance groups and standards...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/22/2010
Binary File Format Plugfest
The Office interoperability team will host a Binary File Format Plugfest on October 19th and 20th in...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 08/18/2010
Agenda for June 8 Digital Signatures Workshop
I blogged recently about the upcoming digital signatures DII workshop, which will take place in...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/26/2010
SharePoint Interoperability Plugfest
Here’s another Plugfest event coming up here in Redmond to let everyone know about. It’s a...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 04/28/2010
Digital Signatures DII Workshop
The next DII workshop will be on June 8, 2010 in Redmond. This event will focus on digital...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 04/27/2010
SC34 Meetings, Stockholm
The SC34 plenary and working-group meetings took place in Stockholm last week, hosted by Swedish...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/29/2010
Standards, Patents, and the OSP
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/24/2009
Open XML support in new tools, apps, and custom solutions
One of the more interesting aspects of my job is meeting people who are developing software that...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/18/2009
DII workshop, Brussels
Last week I participated in the DII workshop that took place in Brussels. Attendees included a...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/17/2009
ODF plugfest and OOoCon, Orvieto
I’ve spent the last week in the city of Orvieto, perched atop a hill in Umbria, Italy. Monday and...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/07/2009
DII workshop – Brussels, November 12
The next DII (Document Interoperability Initiative) workshop will take place in Brussels on November...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/13/2009
DII Workshop on Office 2010 Extensions
If you’re using the Office 2010 Technical Preview and you’re the type of person who likes to look...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 09/23/2009
DII Workshop: MCE Deep Dive, Redmond
We’ll be hosting another DII workshop soon, and this one will be of special interest to those who...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/21/2009
Open XML developers: where to get answers
I recently returned from a long business trip, and while working through my email backlog I’ve come...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 07/09/2009
Comment Policy
The posts on this blog are based on my personal perspective, which may or may not reflect official...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/20/2009
Tracked Changes
When I blogged about the release of SP2 with ODF support two weeks ago, I mentioned that I was...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/14/2009
1 + 2 = 1?
Does 1 plus 2 equal 3? After last week’s sometimes acrimonious discussion about formulas in ODF, you...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/10/2009
ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability
Rob Weir posted on his blog a couple of days ago an Update on ODF Spreadsheet...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/05/2009
Links for 05/04/2009
PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 was released last week, as an open-source PHP API for generating PPTX files,...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/04/2009
Working with ODF in Word 2007 SP2
For those of us on the Office Interoperability team, as well as our colleagues throughout Office,...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 04/28/2009
IS29500 is an American National Standard
The INCITS Executive Board has approved the adoption of ISO/IEC IS29500 (Office Open XML) as an...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 04/17/2009
DII Workshop: London, May 18
I’m pleased to announce that another DII workshop is coming soon. The last two events took...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 04/09/2009
WG4 meetings and SC 34 plenary, Prague
We had three days of WG4 face-to-face meetings in Prague last week, followed by the SC34 plenary on...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/30/2009
Links for 03-25-2009
I’m here at the WG4 meeting in Prague this week, working on IS29500 maintenance with the other...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/25/2009
Odds & ends for 03-01-2009
The ODF TC has published Committee Draft 01 for ODF 1.2. This is not the official public-review...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/02/2009
Building consensus around ODF 1.2
It’s been interesting to be a part of the ODF TC and learn about how an OASIS working group handles...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/19/2009
Off to Okinawa
I'm at Sea-Tac waiting to board my flight to the WG4/WG5 meetings in Okinawa this week, and decided...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/25/2009
ECMA-376 Implementation Notes for Office 2007 SP2
Today we've published another set of document-format implementation notes, this time for the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/16/2009
Interoperability Challenges
I've started testing interoperability between various document-format implementations, and have...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/15/2009
Is it too late to say Happy New Year?
Man, it's already the second week of 2009. Where does the time go? Here are a few links to posts and...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/12/2009
Ecma approves ECMA-376 Edition 2 aligned with IS29500
The Ecma General Assembly met on December 4, and one of the matters they addressed was publication...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/17/2008