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Best places to get XPS Info

Since I moved over to the Office team this blog (primarily focused on XPS) is not very active. If you are looking for the latest info on XPS, here are some helpful links: XPS implementation information at http://www.microsoft.com/xps XPS in Vista at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/xps.mspx Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:04 AM by Andy Simonds | 1 Comments

We are Done!!!

Wooohooooo!!!! Windows Vista RTM'd today: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/default.mspx Almost 5 years of my life working on this project and we are done. I can't wait to see everyone using it. That is the reward for working so hard on something like Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:25 AM by Andy Simonds | 3 Comments

.NET Framework 3.0 is Released

Sort of Chapter 1 of a 3-part release of the innovation we have been working on for the last 4 or so years. Chapter 1 - .NET 3.0. Contains all of the XPS and OPC document APIs, XPS Viewer and XPS print driver and runs on Windows XP (built into Windows Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:18 AM by Andy Simonds | 4 Comments

Seen and Noted

A few things to note: A very cool white-board demo you have to see. Posted on Nils van Boxsel's blog (who has a lot of interesting things up on his blog). I noticed that Adobe has announced a new project called 'Mars' . It seems to be essentially a PDF Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:24 AM by Andy Simonds | 5 Comments

Kofax Announces XPS Support

Kofax recently sent out a press release regarding support for XPS in their toolkit for the document capture industry. Kofax technology is utilized by a majority of the document scanning vendors in the industry and their support for XPS is an important Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:44 AM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)

XPS v1 is on-line

The final v1.0 of the XPS spec is available for download. Get it here . - Andy Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:01 AM by Andy Simonds | 2 Comments

XML Paper Specification v1.0 RTMs!!!!!!!!

At 11:30 AM PST - the final version of the XML Paper Specification (v1.0) RTM'd. This is a great day and represents an incredible amount of hard work, blood-shed, tears, slaying dragons (and lawyers) by the team to get to this point. We started on this Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:34 PM by Andy Simonds | 4 Comments

New Windows Vista PC

I’ve finally purchased my ‘Vista’ PC for my home. My new PC was custom built from parts from Fry’s with the help (or should I say completely assembled why I just watched) by Britt from the D2 team (thanks Britt). It’s a smokin’ machine, pretty blue LED Read More...

Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:30 PM by Andy Simonds | 5 Comments

What's going on?

A few random updates. But 1st, I mentioned putting up a picture of the spec. Here it is in its' baby-blue splendor: Will these internally printed copies be worth anything at some point? Something about it seems more valuable than the boring bits and bytes Read More...

Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:42 PM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)

New DigSig Article

A new article on digital signatures is up on MSDN . Written by Andrey Shur (our all-knowing, all-seeing PM on packaging technology) it gives an overview of how the whole OPC Digital Signing Framework works. I know the Bears and Seahawks are playing this Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:00 PM by Andy Simonds | 3 Comments

XPS .95 now available

Version .95 of the XPS spec is now available. Download it from the XPS download site . Also, go to the main XPS blog to get all the details on what is new and what is changed with this version. Specs were printed out in baby-blue this time. Last version Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:18 PM by Andy Simonds | 2 Comments

InfoTrends talk in Boston

Next week I am off to Boston to speak at the InfoTrends Office Document Solutions conference . Feel free to make fun of the bad picture of me on the website. The title of my talk is 'XPS Revealed'. I'm going to take an stab at really explaining some of Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:13 PM by Andy Simonds | 4 Comments

Beta 2 of XPS Essentials Pack is out

Beta 2 of the XPS essentials pack is out. Read about the details and how to download at the XPS team blog . Here is the quick list of what is in the pack: A stand-alone XPS Document Viewer Microsoft XPS Document Writer to output files to the XPS Document Read More...

Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 3:04 PM by Andy Simonds | 1 Comments

RC1 is out

RC1 of .NET 3.0 and Windows Vista has shipped. If you are a beta tester for Vista you already should have access to the released bits. Anyone can download .NET 3.0 from here . .NET 3.0 contains the latest bits of Windows Presentation Foundation and of Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:49 PM by Andy Simonds | (Comments Off)

MXDW in July .NET 3.0 CTP

In the July CTP of .NET 3.0 (formerly WinFX) the XPS print driver (MXDW) is included in the package. This may have been missed by a lot of people because, frankly we kind of forgot to tell everyone. So, if you are using Windows XP and have been wondering Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:54 PM by Andy Simonds | 3 Comments