Brian Jones: Office Solutions

About 8 months ago we announced to our MVPs that we would provide PDF publish support natively in the 2007 Office system . We made the move due to overwhelming customer demand for PDF support, and it was received really well. The blog post I made around...

There have been a ton of really great comments and questions today in relation to the news that we are going to have to pull our PDF and XPS publish support out of Office 2007. We will still offer the PDF and XPS publish functionality as a free download...

This is the third post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature. In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML as well as a more detailed post on XHML compliance . Today Zeyad is discussing the ways...

Doug Mahugh had a post a couple days ago where he provides some basic code that will generate a WordprocessingML document: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2006/06/27/649007.aspx Some folks have been asking about examples of how to create a basic...

As we move forward with the standardization of the Office Open XML formats, it's interesting to look at the motivations that brought us to this point, but also to think about what is still to come. We've wanted to provide folks with easier ways to work...

In the comments of my latest post around the legal issues we’re currently dealing with from Adobe around our PDF support in Office 2007 a number of folks were wondering when Adobe would provide their side of the story. Well while I was down in Tech Ed...

Today we announced the formation of a new customer council focused on interoperability (how to make technologies work better together). I'm sure you've noticed over time that Microsoft has made a strong commitment to work towards better interoperability...

If you're heading out to TechEd this week like I am, you should definitely plan on attending Tristan Davis' talk on Thursday afternoon that covers the new functionality in Word 2007 for custom XML solutions. This talk goes into great detail on the...

I've had a lot of folks ask me to provide more information on what features are missing from ODF and why it was that we decided to create out own XML format (Open XML). I didn't want to get too involved in pulling together a full detailed list, but it...

Well, it has definitely been a pretty hectic couple weeks, and it's going to take me awhile to get caught up. I was in Boston two weeks ago for TechEd, and in Sapporo last week for Ecma meetings. Both were great trips, but it's nice to be home. The meetings...

This is my first time on an airplane with wifi, so I'm pleased to bring this news to you from somewhere over the pacific. I've been promising for the past year that one of the big things we're going to do this time around that we didn't do much of with...

Who else is going to be heading out to Boston next week for Tech Ed 2006? I'll be out there for a couple days in the middle of the week. I'm presenting Wednesday from 5:30-6:45, so be sure to swing by and say hi. Here's the information on my session...

Patrick Smith has a post up on Dave Gainer's blog talking about the updated PIA story for Office 2007: ( 2007 Microsoft Office System Primary Interop Assemblies ) -Brian