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Apparently Kyoto Was The Place To Be Last Week - Heading Towards The Open XML BRM
I have been hearing from folks who were in Kyoto last week attending either the JTC 1 SC34 meeting...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 12/12/2007
The Digital World of Music - Business Models Continued
I think the discussion on my last posting about digital music was great. If this topic interests...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 12/12/2007
Multiple Formats Discussion Continued...
I just have itchy fingers tonight, and can't help but blog a bit more. Peter Galli over at eWeek...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 12/05/2007
Interoperability For Accessibility
I have been on the road the past week, and it has kept me from sitting down to write about two steps...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/16/2007
12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years
Well, today marks 12 years at Microsoft for me. I try not to blog about my personal stuff, but I was...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/07/2007
New Spec Under OSP - Windows Management Interface to Viridian - Hypercall API
Warning, geek-central posting: A year ago Microsoft moved the Virtual Hard Disk format under the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/30/2007
Document Formats Discussions
It is worth recapping some interesting conversations related to a blog post I made last week about...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/30/2007
News Today from Microsoft @ Interop NY
Today we made an announcement of progress around our interoperability work. This was done in...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/24/2007
Open XML - Progress Towards the BRM
I thought it would be good to post a quick link to the brief statement that Ecma posted regarding...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/23/2007
Formats, Formats, and more Formats....some say there should be only...except the other one...and that one...and the new one...and...
In the comments section of my last post, there is an absolutely solid discussion going on the idea...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/18/2007
Open Documents Panel at GOSCON
I sat on a panel today at the Government Open Source Convention with folks from SUN, IBM, Adobe, and...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/17/2007
OSI Approves MS Licenses
Today the news hit that two licenses from Microsoft were approved by the Open Source Initiative as...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/17/2007
Open XML Implementations Part 2
There is a great conversation happening in the comments section of my last post about independent...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/17/2007
Locked-Up Data for Web 2.0?
I have not poked at a blog posting of Matt Asay's in quite some time, so no time like the present....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/13/2007
Silverlight / Moonlight - Innovation and Interop
Last week Microsoft announced that Silverlight 1.0 was being released. For those of you who may not...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/09/2007
Welcome To The Blogosphere Oliver
It is always good to see someone with deep industry experience, and a sharp mind decide to add his...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/05/2007
Open XML Will Have A Ballot Resolution Meeting
As I said in my last post, Open XML did not get approved. Frankly I was going to leave the topic...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/05/2007
Open XML Moves Towards The Ballot Resolution Meeting
Earlier today, ISO put out a press release stating that Open XML did not reach the required...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/04/2007
Open XML - The Vote in Sweden
The latest chapter in the Open XML standardization story is focused on Sweden. There are accusations...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/30/2007
US INCITS Executive Board Votes "Yes With Comments" for Open XML
Today the results of the United States vote for Open XML were made public. The INCITS Executive...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/24/2007
"Yes with comments" for Open XML
Germany just announced that their vote for Open XML will be “YES with comments”. The INCITS...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/22/2007
Germany Votes Yes With Comments
We should have kids follow the Open XML votes as it would do more for their understanding of...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/22/2007
Ecma TC-45 Will Review ALL Comments
I am bubbling this up from a response to a question of an earlier posting. Quite a few folks have...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/21/2007
Open XML - US Vote Progress Continues
I have spent the past 2 weeks looking at really big trees and getting my perspective reset as it...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/20/2007
Vacation continues
I've received a bunch of mail and a few comments to the blog asking when I'll be back online...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/16/2007
Policy Makers Being Balanced & Reasonable
The Massachusetts revised Enterprise Technical Reference Model 4.0 (ETRM) has been posted. Earlier...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/02/2007
Portugal Votes Yes For Ecma Open XML
I always thought summer was a time for relaxing - not blogging all the time and working until all...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/31/2007
JPEG XR - Standardizing Microsoft HD Photo
A bit of good standards news today. Earlier today there was a press release from the Joint...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/31/2007
Ecma Open XML and the Portuguese National Body
As noted in Bob Sutor’s blog, on other anti-Open XML blogs, and on various comments to previous...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/30/2007
Microsoft OSS Web Site
Today Microsoft launched its new open source web site. Starting in 2001, we began thinking long and...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/26/2007
Grab Bag Today - More on Open XML, Iron Projects, IBM's Spec Pledge
A couple of things to pop up on my blog today: Stephen McGibbon wrote a blog posting this week about...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/25/2007
Participation - Open XML Discussion cont...
Looking through the extended comments in the posting I did recently about the comments being put...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/20/2007
US National Body Creates Ballot for Open XML - Yes With Comments
Well, it has been a busy week as can be expected leading up to the early September finish to the 5...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/20/2007
Motivations Run Deep
I was sitting in traffic today in Seattle (hard to believe), and listening to a radio story on NPR...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/10/2007
Open XML- Denmark, now Massachusetts
Massachusetts is now in a public review period of their updated ETRM policy that moves Ecma Open XML...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/02/2007
Open XML and ODF - What Do You Want To Encourage
I have been traveling through Europe this week talking to people about interop generally, and with...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/29/2007
.NET / J2 Interoperability
Nice piece written about a guy who has done an interesting piece of work here at MS. Greg showed...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/24/2007
Instructions For Insulting Me
Given that I tend to blog about contentious issues in the software industry, and that I work for...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/12/2007