December 2007 - Posts

Open XML blogging in 2007
30 December 07 06:36 PM
It's been quite a year for those who have been blogging about the Open XML file formats. Here's a look back at some of the stories I remember best from this busy year ... January: Brian Jones provides an overview of Passing the Open XML standard off to Read More...
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Merry Christmas!
24 December 07 08:45 AM
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I hope you have a relaxing holiday season this week. While some people (including my Mom) are traveling thousands of miles to celebrate the holidays, my wife Megan and I are staying home this year. We're looking Read More...
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A stocking stuffer from TC45
21 December 07 08:33 PM
Ecma TC45 has uploaded to their web site proposed dispositions for 2298 of the 3522 total DIS 29500 comments today, according the the announcement on the Ecma web site from Tom Ngo of NextPage. There are 532 new responses, and they've now completed 65% Read More...
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Open XML links for 12-20-2007
20 December 07 04:57 PM
Document Science CTO on Office and Open XML. My good friend Warren Wilbee recently interviewed Dr. Nasser Barghoutian, the CTO of Document Science, about how they develop applications on the Office platform. Podtech has posted a video of the interview, Read More...
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Symbian support for DOCX/XLSX
19 December 07 11:23 PM
Quickoffice Premier 5.0 is the first mobile productivity software suite to support Office 2007 file formats on the S60 platform . The Symbian S60 platform is used by Nokia , Samsung, and many other manufacturers, and you'll find S60 smartphones in the Read More...
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World of confusion
18 December 07 08:52 PM
Rick Jelliffe's "World of Confusion" blog post about his impressions at an all-day seminar on the feasibility of implementing Office Open XML has started a long conversation. It seems a few people think he's out of line and/or in need of pyschoanalysis Read More...
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New blog: Gray Matter
18 December 07 09:02 AM
People often ask me how much smaller Open XML documents are than corresponding Office binary documents. It's a hard question to answer with any precision, because the difference in size is so dependent on the document content. For example, a long simple Read More...
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Where's Wouter?
15 December 07 06:01 PM
I've been wondering lately, "what's up with Wouter?" He was so active blogging about Open XML in the past, and nothing new from him has appeared in my RSS reader for several weeks now. I know he's been busy lately with a few little things like starting Read More...
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Open XML links for 12-13-2007
13 December 07 10:16 AM
The last week has seen some interesting discussions and useful how-to posts on Open XML blogs ... Three new articles on OpenXMLDeveloper.org . Sheela over at Sonata has recently posted several new articles, including an overview of how digital signatures Read More...
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Ecma project editor passes the 50% mark
11 December 07 11:04 PM
As Ecma announced today, the project editor (Rex Jaeschke) now has proposed dispositions for over 50% of the 3522 national body comments. "The ISO/IEC DIS 29500 Project Editor is on track to produce a final document by mid-January 2008, containing proposed Read More...
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Linq to XML code samples
11 December 07 07:03 AM
Well, that didn't take long: Eric White has already posted a series of blog posts on using Linq to XML with Open XML. He covers the basics of packages and parts, and then presents an OpenXMLDocument class that converts any Open XML document into a hierarchical Read More...
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New member of the Open XML team: Eric White
06 December 07 04:05 PM
I recently mentioned that I've moved to a new role in the Office organization, and now that my replacement over in DPE is officially signed, sealed, and soon to be delivered, I just wanted to mention how excited I am about the latest addition to the Open Read More...
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