November 2008 - Posts

Publication of ISO/IEC 29500 (Office Open XML)
19 November 08 06:20 AM

It's official: ISO announced today the publication of the final text of ISO/IEC 29500, the Office Open XML specification. This includes all of the changes agreed to at the BRM, including the strict-vs-transitional structure and many others from the various Read More...

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Links for 11-17-2008
17 November 08 05:54 PM

Zeyad Rajabi has started a series of very useful hands-on posts over on Brian Jones's blog about working with the Open XML SDK. Recent posts include a Document Assembly Solution for SpreadsheetML and Reading Data from SpreadsheetML . Alex Brown has two Read More...

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ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC (OIC TC)
12 November 08 04:24 PM

I’ve had a few people ask recently whether Microsoft would be participating in the OIC TC, and I’m glad to report that as of today we’ve signed up. I’ll be representing Microsoft on this TC, and I’m looking forward to working with Bart Hanssens (TC chair), Read More...

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