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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:55 AM

Looking for some good reading on Open XML?

Wow, can't believe it's been over a month since my last post. I've been pretty busy getting back into the Office 14 project, the recently released Open XML APIs , as well as the Office 2007 SP work (where we'll be introducing the ODF support). I haven't
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:04 AM

More on yesterday’s ODF announcement

Gray Knowlton had a great post yesterday laying out more of the details on the "Save as ODF" functionality that will be built in natively for Office 2007 SP2: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/05/21/microsoft-adds-save-as-odf-to-office-2007-service-pack-2.aspx
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:06 PM

ODF support in Office

I took a few weeks off recently, which is why my blog has been fairly inactive the past month. I wanted to take a quick moment to point out some big news that's been in the works for some time now. Today we announced a number of developments in the document
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:46 PM

ISO takes full control - SC34 now moving forward on maintenance and evolution of Open XML

I'm heading home from Norway in the morning, but wanted to give a quick update on the progress made over the past few days. I was attending the SC34 meetings in Oslo and there was a good amount of focus on document format standards (SC34, as designated
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:20 AM

Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war

I'm sure many folks have seen the news by now that Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard (IS 29500). Based on the numbers I've seen, looking at the P member countries there are now 24 who vote "yes", and only 8 vote "no". This puts the P member
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Monday, March 31, 2008 3:50 PM

Open XML Resources for Developers

Doug has a great post today that helps get us back to what really matters in this whole file format discussion (at least if you're a developer). He links to a number of existing resources that can help folks who are just now getting started with Open
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Monday, March 31, 2008 4:35 AM

German standards body responds to "incorrect and misleading" reports

Via Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/31/din-responds-to-quot-incorrect-and-misleading-quot-reports.aspx -Brian
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Friday, March 28, 2008 10:17 AM

Norway vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Norway has also decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500 (Open XML). http://www.standard.no/imaker.exe?id=18594 Norway had initially voted "no with comments" in September, so it's great to see that they now feel Open XML is ready to be an ISO
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Friday, March 28, 2008 10:14 AM

South Korea vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Oliver Bell just informed me that South Korea has decided to vote for approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML) as an ISO standard. This is a change from their original "no with comments" posisiton they took back in September, and is great news. South Korea was
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Friday, March 28, 2008 6:59 AM

Denmark vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Jesper Lund Stocholm is reporting that Denmark has decided to change their initial vote of "no" in September to "yes" for ISO approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML). Here is a pointer to the press release: http://www.ds.dk/4225 As Stephen McGibbon put it: "Denmark
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:47 PM

Finland vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Here's the official statement, although it's in Finnish: http://www.sfs.fi/ajankohtaista/tiedotteet/20080327195555.html Finland had initially voted "abstain" back in September, but they have now decided to change their vote to "yes" in support of DIS
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:31 AM

Another example of Open XML as a submission format...

Just saw this on Pablo's blog : Covering yet another set of scientific disciplines, last month the folks from ArXiv (the largest repository for Physics, also very popular for Math and Computer Science papers) posted the news that they now accept OpenXML
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:58 AM

The OSP will apply to DIS 29500 (Open XML) going forward

Oliver has a post today discussing this, as it's come up a lot in the discussions he's been having: http://osrin.net/2008/03/27/the-osp-will-apply-to-future-versions-of-dis29500/ -Brian
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:14 PM

Miguel de Icaza’s views on Open XML, and what the next steps should be

Interesting post from Miguel today: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-26.html I have been reading the OOXML storm in a teacup for more than a year now. Am looking forward to the approval of OOXML as an ISO standard and to be able to move the discussion
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:31 PM

Video clip of the add-in for authoring Scientific Articles

If you want to get an idea of how the add-in works, Pablo has posted a short video: Pablo suggested skipping to about 4:40 into the video to see the actual solution. For more information on the add-in, check out the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia/archive/2008/03/25/short-video-clip-on-the-add-in.aspx
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