The End of the Office File Format War

asehmi — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:08:00 GMT

Open XML has overwhelmingly been approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500) signaling the the end of the file formats war! More details can be found at Brian Jones' Blog here and an extensive list of resources at Erika Ehrli's Blog here.

Watch a video demo from Brian Jones:

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Open XML Buzz

asehmi — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:28:05 GMT

There's been a lot of buzz about Open XML and if you're wondering how to ramp up quickly, then I'd highly recommend reading this excellent concise explanation by Wouter Van Vugt.

Quite a number of Microsoft folks have written about the recent Open XML support from IBM and Google and here are some links if you're interested in this topic:

Welcome to the party, IBM! – Doug Mahugh, January 18, 2008
Speaking of odd contradictions… - Gray Knowlton, January 18, 2008
Open XML Support By IBM – Jason Matusow, January 21, 2007
Eric Lai: "Lotusphere: Whoops?! IBM products support Microsoft's Open XML doc format! – Stephen McGibbon, January 20, 2008
IBM & Google Now Support Open XML(?) – Oliver Bell, January 19, 2008
IBM and Google Support for Open XML– Craig Kitterman, January 19, 2008
Développeurs, à vos clavier. IBM, Google et Apple ne peuvent pas tous se tromper: il y a du business Open XML à prendre., Bruno Schroder & Dirk Tombeur [Benelux]
IBM: Open XML or not Open XML? – OpenXML Blog [France]
[open xml] Google implementirao Open XML spec - Ratko Mutavdžić DPE/NTO [Croatia]
Belated Welcome to IBM to the OOXML Party! - Owen Allen

The news section of Open XML Developer website is handy to monitor what's coming up like SDKs, Java libraries, XML Spy support, and accessibility of Open XML.

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