At the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing in Boston, Microsoft announced the wide availability of the Beta 1 release of the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007. In addition to enabling Word users to open and save documents using the National Library of Medicine’s XML Journal Publishing format, used for the authoring of scientific articles, the Beta 1 release adds support for the NCBI Book format, used for in authoring book chapters for digital books....

I, along with folks from the Word team and Technical Computing Initiative/Microsoft Research, will be in Boston next week, participating in a session on Wednesday morning ( Seminar 1 ). Also on Friday, I will be hosting a informal discussion table...

A few interesting news: Aries Systems now supports Word 2007 docx files The Times Reader will start a Beta of their Mac version Last, I wanted to highlight that we will be attending (and presenting) at the upcoming Society for Scholarly Publishing...

As we get comments and questions from you about the add-in, or have opportunities to discuss the experience and underlying technology face-to-face (as at the HighWire Publisher's Meeting last week), it is interesting how frequently the topic of structured...