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Durusau’s post IS29500 process comments

Posted on August 24, 2008 by oliver

Patrick Durusau has posted a couple of his now characteristic PDFs since the end of the IS29500 appeals process. It is worth taking a moment to read both of them; http://www.durusau.net/publications/listening.pdf OOXML has been approved by a super-majority of those … Continue reading →

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ISO and IEC members give go ahead on ISO/IEC DIS 29500

Posted on August 15, 2008 by oliver

The text below was posted today on ISO’s site; 2008-08-15 The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after appeals by … Continue reading →

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OpenXML: A Bright and Progressive Future

Posted on June 25, 2008 by oliver

My colleague Gray Knowlton has a post up on his blog this morning talking about our unwavering commitment to OpenXML as an essential component  of the Microsoft Office System. Many have asked or speculated that the recent announcement of ODF in Service … Continue reading →

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OpenXML PowerTools released to CodePlex

Posted on June 12, 2008 by oliver

I see Eric White is carrying details of the release of the OpenXML Powertools on his blog today. If you want to be able to generate OpenXML documents on the server, without an installation of Microsoft Office, then this is … Continue reading →

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OpenXML SDK v1.0 Now Available

Posted on June 10, 2008 by oliver

Back in March of this year, Doug Mahugh talked about the roadmap for the OpenXML SDK, an important set of tools that will allow developers to quickly develop applications that read and right OpenXML (ECMA-376) documents. This first version of … Continue reading →

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ODF Support added to the Microsoft Office System – Additional Reading

Posted on May 23, 2008 by oliver

The laziest type of blog post is one that just quotes a bunch of other people and adds little value in its own right, I tend to use this blog as a combination of a place to document some of … Continue reading →

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More Interop for Microsoft Office (ODF, PDF, PDF/A, XPS)

Posted on May 22, 2008 by oliver

There are no shortage of press and blog stories this morning sharing the news that Microsoft has committed to supporting version 1.1 of the Open Document Format in SP2 of Office 2007. As the announcement happened while those of us … Continue reading →

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OpenXML/DaisyXML Translator Now Available

Posted on May 7, 2008 by oliver

Cast your mind back to last November and you may remember Microsoft committing to working with the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium to produce a translator to their DAISY XML file format (translating WordprocessingML to Daisy DTBooks format), this … Continue reading →

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The Game Of Jing Pong

Posted on May 6, 2008 by oliver

Almost a week ago now Alex Brown posted the details of his “smoke test” looking at an ODF document produced by OpenOffice 2.4.0, checking conformance with IS26300 with the ODF 1.0 RelaxNG schemas, using Jing. For most of last week nobody … Continue reading →

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Office 2007 & IS29500 Conformance…

Posted on April 22, 2008 by oliver

ZDNet UK this morning carried a story headlined “Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test“, and in a subheading explains; Word documents generated by today’s version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under … Continue reading →

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