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Two Interesting Posts
A quick note for a beautiful Friday afternoon. 1) Check out the news that Tom Hanrahan has joined MS...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/08/2007
Identity Interop - Nice Post From Macehiter
I'd like to point out a nice post from Neil Macehiter of MWD in Europe. He is an industry analyst...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/04/2007
Java Dev for Open XML
A common concern raised by the opponents to the standardization work we're involved in for Open XML...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/01/2007
Translate This!
Just a quick note. I was pointed at this list of file formats on Wikipedia. The document formats...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/30/2007
Interoperability Executive Customer Council
About a year ago we announced the intent to create an interop exec council with the goal of creating...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/29/2007
The Business of Interop
Walking around the show floor of the Interop Las Vegas show I was struck by the fact that, at least...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/24/2007
Interop In The News
So, it is pathetic that I have not posted to my blog since the middle of March. I have been...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/23/2007
FoxPro Going to CodePlex
I just saw that Microsoft is moving FoxPro to the CodePlex site. In other words, as the company has...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/19/2007
Open XML In The ISO Process
I was travelling in Europe last week and meeting a variety of people regarding interoperability,...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/13/2007
Novell Releases Open XML Translator for OpenOffice
On March 5, Novell announced on the PR Blog the availability of the Open XML Translator for the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/07/2007
Document Format Legislation - Something To Be Avoided
Recently, a number of elected officials in U.S. state governments have been taking a closer look at...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/05/2007
Doc Format Legislation - elevating a great comment
Here is a comment submitted to an earlier blog posting about doc formats. For those of my readers...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/05/2007
Doc Format Activities - Open Letters and More
Today an open letter was posted to the interop site at Microsoft. Yesterday, an open letter was...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 02/14/2007
Schwartz Joins the Doc Format Discussion
I appreciate the fact that Jonathan Schwartz of SUN has jumped into the doc format discussion with a...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 02/13/2007
IPRs As Collaboration Framework
Sometimes you just have to write a response to a comment up here at the top level of the blog rather...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 02/13/2007
Intellectual Property - Protection vs. Collaboration
Lately I have been wondering about the relationship of IP to the ideas of protection vs....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 02/12/2007
Analysis of IBM's Intentions
If you haven't read this, it will be thought provoking at the very least. I've known Jonathan for a...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 02/10/2007
A Long Week
Thank you to those of you who have been pinging me and asking if I am ok due to my latest hiatus...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 02/03/2007
Out for a week
I'd like to thank all of you who have been commenting on the blog this past week or so. I have been...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/24/2006
Thank You For The Feedback
Most of the time I try to respond to the comments that come into my blog. There has been a rush of...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/16/2006
Interoperability Vendor Alliance
One of the foundational elements to Microsoft’s delivering interoperability by design is working...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/15/2006
Your Input Requested
One of the key elements in the Novell / Microsoft Collaboration announcement from last week was a...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/11/2006
Joint or Separate - The Content Matters
UPDATED Nov. 10 I have changed the content on the MS website - follow the links in this posting....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/07/2006
Novell and Microsoft Build A Bridge
Today Microsoft and Novell signed, and announced, a landmark collaboration agreement for building...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/02/2006
Interoperability Through Community - Zend/Microsoft Tech Collab
UPDATED 11/1 with links at bottom: Bill Hilf and his team have done another tech collab deal that...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/01/2006
Craig Kitterman Joins the Blogosphere
Craig is a colleague of mine who works on interoperability at Microsoft as a part of the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/23/2006
Interoperability By design - Sender ID Under the OSP
As promised, we have announced the next specifications to be covered by the open specification...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/23/2006
A Busy Week for Interoperability
This week is going to be a hectic one for the interop team here at Microsoft. Tomorrow morning we...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/23/2006
IE7 Available
Just an FYI as I have enjoyed the changes to IE over the past few months that I have been using the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/19/2006
Interoperability In Europe
I was in the air longer than I was in Europe this week (Chicago Monday, Brussels Tuesday, Seattle...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/18/2006
Application of the OSP
We now have the OSP out there and it has been applied to 35 web services specs and now the VHD spec....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/18/2006
VHD under OSP - Interoperability Again...
Today I am in Brussels at the European Interoperability Summit held at the Microsoft Executive...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/17/2006
David Rudin Enters The Blogosphere
David Rudin is one of the attorneys on the Corporate Standards Team at Microsoft (and who has been...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/13/2006
Open Specification Promise
Updated with links at end Updating again with more links It would seem that I needed...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/12/2006
Open XML Translator
As usual, I'm slow in my blog posting - but I've been a bit busy on the back end working with a...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 07/06/2006
Creative Commons Plug-in for Office
Today Microsoft and the Creative Commons jointly announced the availability of a plug-in for Office...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/21/2006
Interoperability - Customer vs. Vendor Input
In James Governor's Monk Chips posting recently he made some kind comments about me that I am...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/21/2006
Bloggers Update
I recently posted a link to Stephen McGibbon's blog and was hit with a number of complaints that his...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/19/2006
Interoperability - Listening to Customers
Interoperability is something I have blogged about in the past. It is an issue which customers are...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/14/2006
Performance Matters To Customers
Updated From Original Posting Swashbuckler (who makes frequent, cogent arguments in the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/24/2006
Formats Performance Differential
I was recently pointed to an blog posting by George Ou over at ZDNet. Performance matters....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/24/2006
Interesting MS Bloggers In Europe
I'd like to highlight three really bright Microsoft guys who live over in Europe. They are deeply...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/22/2006
Open Leads To Consulting
Interesting piece about the relationship between "open" and consulting revenues. I have long been...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/19/2006