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XPS at TechEd 2006

Microsoft TechEd 2006 is next week and we will have a session on XPS there. Marcio will be going solo with no support from his team, so if you are there, offer to carry something for him. Description of the session: DEV324 Windows Vista As a Document Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 1:24 PM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)
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Windows Vista Product Guide

The Windows Vista Product Guide is available up on ms.com. It seems to have finished its’ appearing-disappearing act and is up there permanently. Some links strangely point directly to the word doc forcing you to download a 60MB file instead of the smaller Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:25 AM by Andy Simonds | 1 Comments
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XPS, PDF and Adobe

So it is certainly an interesting news day today. For those interested in the world of PDF and XPS, you probably have already read the Wall Street Journal Article about changes we are making because of Adobe. There are also a few other articles that cover Read More...
Posted Friday, June 02, 2006 2:58 PM by Andy Simonds | 38 Comments
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WinHEC and Beta 2

It’s been a big week. WinHEC is wrapping up and we have shipped Beta 2. Beta 2 is awesome (I have been 'XP-free' for several months and love it) and it means we are really headed towards shipping. I stopped by the Beta 2 ship party today here on campus Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:33 PM by Andy Simonds | 2 Comments
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AIIM Day 3 - Final Day

AIIM - Final Day Like all shows, the last day is always slow. Still, we had a lot of traffic in the booth in the morning. I headed out at noon to catch my flight home, but heard that even until 3 we still had a constant flow of people in the booth and Read More...
Posted Friday, May 19, 2006 8:22 AM by Andy Simonds | 4 Comments
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It's May! AIIM and Winhec around the corner

It is suddenly May and things are busy as ever around here. Of course, focusing on Beta 2 is our top priority and that looks real good at this point. In two weeks we will be on the road at AIIM . A lot of excitement brewing for this event. It is the first Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 9:38 AM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)
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XPS Sample Docs available

We recently posted a bunch of sample XPS documents. Download them here . These are primarily for people building XPS solutions for the purpose of testing. The docs are designed to exercise all of the different parts of XPS. Hopefully soon we will get Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:42 AM by Andy Simonds | 2 Comments
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XPS Essentials Pack Beta 1 Released!

Today we launched Beta 1 of what we are calling the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack. If you go to our viewer page you will notice that there are now two links - one to the current viewer built on WinFX and the other to the new XPS Essentials Pack Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:28 AM by Andy Simonds | 2 Comments
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.85 is released!

OK..my last post was a little ambitious - I was about a week off in my prediction of getting .85 of the XPS and OPC spec out. More bureaucracy in getting things posted to ms.com then I can faithfully predict sometimes. Printed copies distributed inside Read More...
Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 4:41 PM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)
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XPS .85 spec here soon

A lot of people have been asking about .85 - it's coming soon. Should be out this week. I will make a post (and there will be one on the XPS blog) as soon as it is out. - Andy Read More...
Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 8:03 AM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)
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Microsoft and XPS at AIIM

Microsoft will have a big presence at the AIIM expo in Philadelphia this year (May 15-18). A brief press release went ou on this yesterday. This is a big deal to us. It is the first time we have ever had a presence at AIIM. Expect a large booth and several Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:19 PM by Andy Simonds | 1 Comments
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Annotations and XPS

We've finally created a post on the annotations story for XPS. It's over on the XPS blog site. Take a look here: http://blogs.msdn.com/xps/archive/2006/02/24/538384.aspx - Andy Read More...
Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 10:57 AM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)
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New XPS whitepaper on document workflow

We snuck a new whitepaper up on microsoft.com. Document Workflows in Windows Vista . The graphic on Page 3 is worth the price of admission all by itself. The paper is not in a very obvious place (up in the printing section of WHDC) but we will get it Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:04 AM by Andy Simonds | 2 Comments
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