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 by JTC1, is the maintenance body for Open XML). …
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ISO takes full control - SC34 now moving forward on maintenance and evolution of Open XML
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Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/04/01/open-xml-overwhelmingly-approved-as-an-iso-iec-standard-is-29500-the-end-of-the-file-formats-war.aspxI'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 approval at 75% easily passing the 2/3 majority needed. …
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Open XML Resources for Developers
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/03/31/open-xml-resources-for-developers.aspxDoug 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 XML development, as well as more advanced links …
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Dr. 5z5 - Open Feed Directory - Free Add Your ATOM / RSS Feed to Open Feed Directory and Track Your Subscribers - Home
http://www.5z5.comOriginal Feed URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/rss.aspx Im Brian Jones, a program manager in Office. Ive been working on the XML functionality and file formats in Office for about 6 years now. In this blog, Ill mainly focus on XML in Office and the Open XML File Formats coming in the 2007 Microsoft Office
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Open XML ... Not just for developers ...
http://www.arouet.net/2008/05/open_xml_not_just_for_develope...XML. Some of my favorites to follow are folks who helped design Office Open XML, worked on the standards process, or continue to work on Open XML for Office (or a combination of these) ... check out blogs from the talented and charming Doug Mahugh and Brian Jones for starters and then take a look at the blogs they read for more expert resources.
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‘Til All Are One
http://www.dhanapalan.com/blogAs promised, Microsoft have promised, Microsoft have released documentation on their old binary formats by February 15. I haven’t taken a look yet, but the comments on the article don’t look too encouraging: some people contend that elements are
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Le format OpenXML est une norme ISO : 10 points
http://formats-ouverts.org/blog/2008/04/27/1577-le-format-op...OpenXML, standard ISO : un ratage d'envergure, de Tristan Nitot, le 2 avril 2008, http://standblog.org/blog/post/2008/04/02/OpenXML-standard-ISO-%3A-un-ratage-denvergure Blog Brian Jones: Open XML Formats, en anglais,http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ Blog XaMaLa Blog animé par Franck Halmaert et XaMaLa, mascotte de la plate-forme Office et son format ouvert Open XML, standard ISO, http://blogs.microsoft.fr/franckha/ Pas d'attaque personnelle et respect de toutes les parties
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Erika Ehrli
http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrliAdditional Resources I recommend you monitor the following blogs for more news about the Open XML Format SDK: Doug Mahugh: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh Eric White: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/ Brian Jones: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ Wouter van Vugt: http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/ More code samples: OpenXmlDeveloper.org site You can also watch Zeyad's and Eric's interview to learn more about the future of the Open XML Format SDK.
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Erika Ehrli
http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/default.aspxAdditional Resources I recommend you monitor the following blogs for more news about the Open XML Format SDK: Doug Mahugh: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh Eric White: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/ Brian Jones: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ Wouter van Vugt: http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/ More code samples: OpenXmlDeveloper.org site You can also watch Zeyad's and Eric's interview to learn more about the future of the Open XML Format SDK.
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Of Nerdful Things
http://steve.zaske.com/wordpressBlogroll Brian Jones | Word PM Dave Gainer | Excel Dev Ravi Raman | Microsoft Secret
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Oliver Bell’s weblog
http://osrin.netto look into harmonization of OOXML and ODF, something that many developers involved in office suites have been advocating for a long time. 7. Microsoft pledged to support features to support other file formats as native file formats in their office suite: Last year we sponsored a translator project that gave people the ability to read and write ODF files from Microsoft Office. Last month we announced that we would update the Office product so that the ODF translators could natively plug into Office
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Announcing the Open XML SDK April 2008 CTP ... live on MSDN...
http://blogs.technet.com/andrewdr/archive/2008/04/20/announc...XML in Office Developer Portal · Office Open XML Formats Resource Center OpenXmlDeveloper.org site Doug Mahugh: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh Eric White: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/ Brian Jones: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ · Wouter van Vugt: http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/
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