I'm Brian Jones, a program manager in Office. I've been working on the XML functionality and file formats in Office for about 6 years now. In this blog, I'll mainly focus on XML in Office and the Open XML File Formats coming in the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
www.hp.com/go/officedocumentstandards
"In the current vote on OOXML at JTC 1, HP is supporting an affirmative vote in those national standards bodies in which HP is active."
-Brian
No news. The point is that they still support you.
I guess it was newsworthy enough for you to feel compelled to leave a comment though. That's enough for me. :-)