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ODF 1.1 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2

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 of the OASIS ODF 1.1 specification . These...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 12-16-2008
Windows 7 Wordpad supports OpenXML and ODF

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.

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-28-2008
Workshop on ODF support in Office 2007 SP2

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 absence that alarmed me - IBM. I've confirmed...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 07-30-2008
Italy: New project to bring OpenXML to Apache POI

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 on open source software, reached today an...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 03-19-2008
Novell: Do your office docs play well with others?

Novell's Kevin Barney blogs about the availability and benefits of the Office Open XML/OpenDocument format translators for presentations and spreadsheets in Novell's Open PR blog :- You know they’ve been in the works, but the Office Open XML/OpenDocument format translators for presentations and spreadsheets...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 02-20-2008
And there's more!

Yesterday I noted that the Office Binary <-> OpenXML translator project had started on SourceForge. Brian Jones has now also blogged about this but adds some really interesting extra details. 1. Ecma " will modify DIS 29500 to include an informative reference to the SourceForge project." 2. Another...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 02-16-2008
Office Binary <-> OpenXML translator project on SourceForge

The following milestones are planned in the Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) Translator to Open XML project Milestone 0 (February 15th, 2008): Launching the project on SourceForge outline of the anatomy of binary Office documents (Compound file format, streams inside, ...) brief description of the streams...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 02-15-2008
UOF translators

China's UOF (Uniform Office Format) is an emerging standard being developed by the Chinese Office Software Work Group (COSWG), led by the China Electronics Standard Institute (CESI), the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), major suppliers of Chinese office software suites, and other academic institutions...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 02-14-2008
Video of OpenXML on a Nokia E61i phone with Quickoffice

This video's really worth watching - it shows OpenXML support (both read and write) on a Nokia E61i with Quickoffice . [YouTube:Hy5T8GT0REc]

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 02-06-2008
Videos showing OpenXML in Apple's iWork '08 and on the iPhone

A while ago I posted some screenshots showing OpenXML in Apple's iWork '08. My colleague Jean-Christophe Cimetiere has gone one better and posted a video ... [YouTube:hg2NW-79rXo] he also posted a video of the OpenXML experience on the iPhone ... [YouTube:oNcAjS7LqKM]

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 02-05-2008

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