by jlundstocholm
15. February 2010 06:00
Some time ago I wrote a bit about what Microsoft Office had managed to get into Microsoft Office 2010 CTP1 (or, I wrote about the stuff I had tested). As you might recall, the results were rather slim, so I wrote to Microsoft to hear, if that was really it. It has been the fear of many that Microsof...
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by jlundstocholm
5. February 2010 14:45
Some time ago I did some tests of Excel in Microsoft Office 2010 (CTP). The test was around OOXML - but test of ODF-support was missing.
One of the things ODF is missing but is in OOXML is the leap-year-bug ... although most of propably don't miss it all that much. The leap-year-bug is the good ol'...
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by jlundstocholm
23. November 2009 06:14
Every time you use a tool, you make a (conscious) decision to trust that tool to do what it says. This is true for closed source software and open source software alike (especially if you don't have the skills to plow through the source of whatever tool you use).
Most people use a generic blogging ...
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by jlundstocholm
3. November 2009 09:11
I have been looking at how Excel 2010 has implemented various features using ISO/IEC 29500-4:2008 - also known as "OOXML Transitional".
Background:
ISO/IEC comes in two variants, a "transitional" (T) and a "strict (S). Transitional is the one containing all the legacy stuff such as VML, legacy dig...
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by jlundstocholm
30. October 2009 13:59
Back in the day when I started blogging, I showed a friend of mine a blog post I had written. He noticed the large number of links to other bloggers in the piece, and he asked me (tongue-in-cheek) if those links were some kind of geeky way of saying "I love you" to the people I linked to.
Well, to ...
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by jlundstocholm
21. October 2009 14:18
It seems about time somebody wrote a bit about how Microsoft has chosen to implement ISO/IEC 29500:2008, aka OOXML. As you might know, Microsoft claims that Microsoft Office 2010 will implement “29500” in Transitional (T) sense. As far as my tests have shown (and they are in no way a com...
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by jlundstocholm
1. October 2009 15:36
I know it has been a couple of weeks, but I just wanted to share current development with you.
On September 7th (in Danish), the Danish mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 met at Danish Standards in Charlottenlund. On the agenda was, amongst other things, processing of documents under ballot. The...
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by jlundstocholm
12. August 2009 13:49
Get the information straight from the horse's mouth from DCA website. If you are not speaking Danish, Google will do a rough translation for you.
I'll update this article shortly ...
... oh ... and I almost forgot ... they suggested using OOXML as well.
by jlundstocholm
2. July 2009 12:29
Norway has mandated use of PDF and/or ODF as document exchange formats. The baseline reference list of approved standards and formats has been released in a "version 2.0"-edition where, amongst other things, ODF has been approved in edition 1.1. An abstract of the text is
3.2.2 ...
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by jlundstocholm
25. June 2009 09:03
Traditionally, for every meeting we have in WG4, some conspiracy-theory is born on how much money the delegates received from Microsoft, how many sports-cars we each got from Microsoft or how we each had a Microsoft employee sitting on our laps dictating what we should say.
So, I thought I...
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