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
Open XML links for 10-11-2007
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
Open XML links for 10-02-2007
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
Open XML links for 09-06-2007
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
Open XML links for 08-06-2007
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
Open XML links for 07-26-2007
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
Open XML links for 06-30-2007
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
Open XML links for 06-13-2007
Professor Flavio Soares da Silva from the University of Sao Paulo has an interesting article on...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 06/13/2007
Open XML links for 06-06-2007
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
Open XML links for 06-01-2007
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
Open XML links for 05-09-2007
The OpenXmlCommunity.org site has come online, listing supporters of Open XML. Brian Jones has the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 05/09/2007