The press release just appeared on their site; ISO/IEC 29500 is a standard for word-processing documents, presentations and spreadsheets that is intended to be implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms. One of its objectives is to ensure the long-term preservation of documents created over the last two decades using ...

My colleague Eric White from our developer group has been quite prolific over the last few months, his blog focuses on LINQ, XML and of course Open XML. He posts frequently, and sometime over the last week has been kind enough to compile a table of contents for his recent work. The entire ToC is here, [...]

Those of you still following the drama that relates to the standardization of OpenXML will probably have caught a story in the Inquirer earlier this week that announced that thirteen of the twenty three members of the Standards Norway document format group had walked out in protest over the countries OpenXML vote. NORWEGIAN MEMBERS of the [...]

Doug Mahugh is carrying an announcement of the next in the series of workshops that we’re running in Redmond to support the Document Interoperability Initiative, this time looking at OpenXML Implementation and Interoperability. The workshop will be held on the Microsoft Redmond Campus on the 24th and 25th October. I managed to attend the ...

Both Doug Mahugh and Eric White have some info on this, version 2.0 of the SDK for Open XML is now available as a CTP, you’ll find it here. Some of the new features include; The OpenXmlDiff utility identifies differences in the markup in two Open XML documents. The Open XML Class Explorer helps you determine which strongly [...]

Patrick Durusau has posted a couple of his now characteristic PDFs since the end of the IS29500 appeals process. It is worth taking a moment to read both of them; http://www.durusau.net/publications/listening.pdf OOXML has been approved by a super-majority of those eligible to vote, appeals have been denied and yet the cry: “You’re Not ...

The text below was posted today on ISO’s site; 2008-08-15 The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of the document failed to garner ...

My colleague Gray Knowlton has a post up on his blog this morning talking about our unwavering commitment to OpenXML as an essential component  of the Microsoft Office System. Many have asked or speculated that the recent announcement of ODF in Service Pack 2 is an indication that Microsoft is quietly stepping away from Open XML. Some ask… [...]

I see Eric White is carrying details of the release of the OpenXML Powertools on his blog today. If you want to be able to generate OpenXML documents on the server, without an installation of Microsoft Office, then this is the way to do it. You’ll find the details on Eric’s blog by following this link; Processing Open [...]

Back in March of this year, Doug Mahugh talked about the roadmap for the OpenXML SDK, an important set of tools that will allow developers to quickly develop applications that read and right OpenXML (ECMA-376) documents. This first version of the SDK, which is available as of today, includes a set of APIs capable of manipulating [...]