Back in December 2006, Andrew Shebanow commented on the difficulty of creating a converter for Microsoft’s Office 2007 document format, which uses XML after Bob Sutor of IBM called it a one-way format due to its complexity. Based on some numbers posted a Microsoft explaining why it would take longer to release a converter for [...]
Microsoft Office XML
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · Microsoft, standards, XML
Is IM interop alive?
January 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Florian Jensen reports that AOL is testing ICQ and AIM interoperability using XMPP. If they adopt XMPP, AIM and ICQ should work with Google Talk as well, although they could of course prevent that from happening if they chose to do so.
I started blogging about the need for interoperability among instant messaging services years ago, [...]
Tags: · instant messaging, standards, XMPP