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October 2005 - Posts

Office and XPS support

It is not necessarily that interesting of a story for Microsoft to talk about how we are using our own technology (duh)! But certainly when the Office team announced support for ‘save-as’ PDF in Office “12” earlier in the month, it raised speculation Read More...
Posted Friday, October 28, 2005 7:24 AM by Andy Simonds | 56 Comments

XPS MSDN Forum

I forgot there is an XPS forum up on MSDN. Not a lot of other people seem to know either as there is only 1 post. Here is the link: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=126 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:10 PM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)

Never a dull moment shipping software

In the last day I’ve: Stared at bug charts/graphs/pivot tables to see how our different feature teams are doing, sent mail to areas I was concerned about, attend some more meetings on XPS licensing to ensure we were rock solid on being as open as possible, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:20 AM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)

XPS, open, royalty-free, cross platform...really

I just got back from a week in Japan . Thinking back to my trip, I am still surprised at how many times I was asked to confirm that XPS was an open format. I visited a lot of partners that are building XPS hardware or software and I found myself forgetting Read More...
Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 10:13 PM by Andy Simonds | 3 Comments

XPS and Windows Media Photo

Those tracking the XPS specification should have noticed that in v.75 we introduced Windows Media Photo as a supported image format in XPS (look on page 12). Windows Media Photo is a new image format in Windows, but is also supported on other platforms. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:25 PM by Andy Simonds | 12 Comments

XPS and Open Packaging Conventions

I've decided it is way overdue that I start blogging about the amazing work we are doing around documents in Windows Vista. 1st topic is to talk about the splitting of the XPS specification into two parts: XPS and Open Packaging Conventions. I'm sitting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:17 AM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)
 
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