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The Danish parliament adopted a new decision on open document formats today. The decision was unanimously adopted by all parties in the Danish Parliament. Here’s a rough translation of the “ Conclusion paper on the use of open standards for software in...
Gray returns from paternity leave for a rest, and starts off with an update on the uptake of the OpenXML Compatibility Pack – which has now passed 100 million downloads. Here’s a taster of the data Gray presents …
At the 97th General Assembly held in Budapest, June 16, 2009, Ecma International approved Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS) as an Ecma standard ( ECMA-388 ). This Standard defines OpenXPS, the Open XML Paper Specification. OpenXPS describes a set...
Anil Sabharwal, Google Apps’ Product Manager has posted on the Google Docs Blog about Google Docs’ support for OpenXML . Anil says that when he shows Google Docs to his friends there is one recurring question – “how do I get my Word and Excel 2007 documents...
have just been published on the Document Interop Initiative (DII) site :- Welcome to the Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Open Document Format (ODF) implementer notes site . Here you will find detailed information about Office’s support for each section...
ISO’s press release says ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) have just published the joint International Standard, ISO/IEC 29500:2008, Information technology – Office Open XML formats...
I said I’d post screenshots of the OpenXML and ODF support in Windows 7 Wordpad. It turns out that this isn’t in build 6801 (the ISO files on “the goods” hdd but is in build 6930. Here’s the File/Open and File/Save Dialogues … (click the pictures for...
I was just in the day 2 keynote here at PDC2008 in LA. Steve Sinofsky confirmed that Wordpad now has support for OpenXML and ODF. I’ll update this post later today with screenshots.
Today I am in a rather overcast Redmond for Microsoft's workshop on ODF support in Office 2007 SP2. (Dough Mahugh wrote about this workshop a few weeks ago.) A few folk have blogged that they're here, and I am sure others will too, but there's one notable...
Very cool post from Eric White that introduces a new CodePlex project to create PowerTools for OpenXML . Eric's video shows the use of PowerShell 1.0 and the recently released OpenXML Format SDK 1.0 to create and manipulate OpenXML documents from the...
Wolfgang Keber has details of v2.0 of the OpenXML/ODF Translator :- After we have released v1.1 in March we got a lot of feedback from various sources including public administrations from all over Europe (thank you very much for it!). We used the rainy...
Today is " Document Freedom Day ". The EU's IDABC "Open Source Observatory" observed back in February Proponents of Open Source and open standards want 26 March to be a day to promote free document formats and open standards. "Data lock-in and subsequent...
Patrick Durusau has posted another thoughtful contribution to the document formats standardisation debate:- Who Loses If OpenXML Loses? As national bodies meet to cast their final votes on OpenXML, a checklist of who loses if OpenXML does might be helpful...
This just caught my eye - " Using XQuery to join two Excel spreadsheets? Why not? ". The author, Dr. Carlo Innocenti (aka Minollo and Program Manager of XML products at Data Direct Technologies ), shows how to use XQuery FLWOR expressions to combine information...
Another of my colleagues, this time Andrea Valboni in Italy, has just written about an interesting project kicking off there to extend the Apache POI Java libraries to include OpenXML. Andrea writes Microsoft and Sourcesense, a company delivering consultancy...
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