TODAY'S QUOTE

Many of our customers, especially in government agencies, require a way to store documents in a safe, open, standardized, and interoperable way. The OpenXML proposal goes a long way towards this end, so we look forward to having it established as an ISO standard.

Edgar Sanchez
President
Logic Studio

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Choice, Innovation, and You

The Open XML community is a group of public institutions, businesses, technology professionals, academics, and developers who support ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML as an ISO/IEC standard. This community believes in the promotion of choice, interoperability, innovation, and technical excellence in document standards. Read on to see how Open XML is being used across a broad set of technology platforms, integrated with diverse systems, and adopted as a standard in businesses and governments across the globe.

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ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard
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June 11, 2008

Microsoft's first development kit for Open XML

Microsoft has released version 1 of an SDK (Software Development Kit) for its own Open XML format for downloading. The SDK allows you to search, create, check, and modify documents. In addition, there are functions to remove comments and other "personal data" from documents in Open XML, as well as in Office Open XML, aka OOXML. Microsoft says that this interface can be used with all languages supported by .Net.

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May 21, 2008

Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office

Microsoft Corporation is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity suite. With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) scheduled for the first half of 2009, the list of supported formats will grow to include XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A, and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1.

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May 8, 2008

Microsoft grows DAISY for blind computer users while Adobe wilts

Microsoft announced the availability of a plug-in that lets users of Word 2007, 2003, and XP easily save documents in DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) XML format.

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April 2, 2008

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

Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard. 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. The issues addressed and revised have resulted in sufficient national bodies withdrawing their earlier disapproval votes, or transforming them into positive votes, so that the criteria for approval of the document as an International Standard have now been met.

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March 20, 2008

New Case Studies Added Highlighting Benefits of Open XML

Case Studies from EMC Document Sciences (US), Quickoffice (US), IntelliSafe Technologies (US), Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Italy), Ipsos Szonda (Hungary), and FUJISOFT (Japan) were recently added showcasing how these organizations from all over the world have benefitted from using Open XML.

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Freedom to choose a document format standard that best suits the task at hand is important to businesses, governments, and individuals. Joining the Open XML community lends your continued support of Open XML as an ISO/IEC standard.

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