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Video of my Presentation at OOoCon2007

I was reviewing some mail concerning the OOoCon2008. I remembered that there should be video coverage of the presentation I gave on OOoCon2007 and found it here.

Microsoft Does Not Obey Its Own Standards

clipped from news.zdnet.com Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test Word documents generated by today’s version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.

Tim Bray about OOXML (ISO/IEC 29500 versus ECMA-376)

My colleague at Sun Tim Bray has written a quite interesting blog about the new standard ISO/IEC 29500 and compares it to the standard ECMA-376. The latter is implemented by Word 2007. Tim points out the question which standard a developer should implement. His answer is clear: If you want your implementation to be accepted by the public, follow the standard follow by the broadest implementation base. That will be ECMA-376.

Please find his post here.

OpenOffice.org Conference 2007 Barcelona

I will be attending OOoCon 2007 in Barcelona. That being interesting enough, I will also give a presentation together with Oliver Specht and Fridrich Strba. The title of the presentation will be New Filter for MS Word: Handle Many Formats Like One. As the title suggests we will be talking about the new filter for importing Microsoft Word’s formats into Writer.

More information about the conference can be found here..

The slot for the presentation is on September 20th at 15:00 hours. You can find the abstract here.

I’m Blogging on GullFOSS

I started blogging on GullFOSS.

I am working in the Writer team at StarOffice/OpenOffice.org with responsibility for the current filter for Word formats. We are also developing a new filter for these formats. This new filter is the subject for my corporate blog entries.