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An update on document formats in Denmark

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...

Google Docs announces OpenXML support

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...

ISO/IEC 29500:2008, Information technology - Office Open XML formats published

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...

PowerTools for OpenXML

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...

Alex Brown: ISO committee takes full control of OOXML

Alex Brown's post "ISO committee takes full control of OOXML" is the first report I've seen from the just-finished SC 34 meeting in Oslo . Alex calls out one of the several resolutions passed which relates to the maintenance of IS29500 - Resolution 4...

ISO: ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard

It's official! Here's ISO's press release . 2008-04-02 ISO/IEC DIS 29500, I nformation technology – Office Open XML file formats , has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard. Approval required at least...