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Looking to leverage Open XML file formats in order to develop custom solutions? Then look no further than the Open XML SDK. Microsoft is currently offering devs version 2 of the software development kit as a testing release. The August 2009 Community Technology Preview of Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office is curr... |
27 August 2009
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Redmond-based Microsoft released about two weeks ago a new flavor for the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac computers, namely Service Pack 2, and it seems that some issues with it have already surfaced, including the fact that PC-created Open XML files could not be opened after applying the update. The best part is that ... |
1 August 2009
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Microsoft not only provided an upgrade for Office 2008 for Mac on July 20, 2009, but also updated a solution designed to bridge the Open XML standard with the file formats used by earlier versions of the productivity suite for Apple computers. Concomitantly with the availability of Office 2008 Service Pack 2, the Red... |
23 July 2009
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Downloads of the Open XML Compatibility Pack have passed the 100 million mark, Microsoft revealed. The Redmond-based company is offering the Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats for users of Office releases prior to Office 2007 in order to enable them to not only open, but also ... |
24 June 2009
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Since mid-2007, members of the Apache POI project revealed that they were hard at work, focused on introducing support for the native file formats of the Office 2007 System. With the availability of Apache POI 3.5 Beta, Java developers can leverage support for a variety of file formats associated with the Open XML IS... |
18 May 2009
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Version 1.0 of the Open XML Document Viewer is now available for download, enabling users without Office 2007 or Office 2008 for Mac to access and view Open XML files as HTML in their browser. According to the Redmond company, v1.0 of the Open XML Document Viewer is designed to play well not only with its latest vers... |
18 May 2009
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Microsoft has made available for download the Community technology preview of the Open XML Format Software Development Kit 2.0. The Open XML Format SDK 2.0 went live on April 7, 2009, and is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center. With the SDK, and the underlying System.IO.Packaging API, the Redmond compa... |
9 April 2009
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Microsoft has already announced that it will make Office 2007 Service Pack 2 play nice with a range of file formats and standards including XPS, PDF, and ODF. In this regard, on December 16, 2008, the Redmond company has published the ODF 1.1 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2. In this manner, Doug Mahugh, a senio... |
16 December 2008
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Microsoft has updated its renowned Office applications suite, MS Office for Mac. Both 2004 and 2008 versions have received updates that improve the security, stability, and performance of the suite. As always, the updates to MS Office are accompanied by a tweaked up Open XML File Format Converter. Microsoft Office 20... |
10 December 2008
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With Open XML now ISO certified, Microsoft continues to pour efforts into the standard in order to ensure interoperability between document format implementations and across different platforms. An example of the success of the Document Interoperability Initiative, launched in March 2008, is the fact that Open XML no... |
3 December 2008
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Even though Microsoft was initially planning to make the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac available by the end of 2007, it was only on June 24, 2008 that the Redmond company actually released the final version of the tool. Designed for Mac OSX version 10.4.9 (Tiger) and 10.5 Leopard, the Open XML File Format Co... |
25 June 2008
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Although nothing is official yet, Microsoft has jumped the gun and announced that the Ecma Office Open XML document format has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard. The vote of approval marks the end of no less than a 14-month period of review for Office Open XML in the process of becoming an ISO standard. Open XML w... |
1 April 2008
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Microsoft announced that it would start cooking open source solutions designed to integrate with its Office System. The Redmond company's perspective over its flagship products, Windows and Office, is that both are platforms, and in this context, the two can act as the basis for additional software. And Microsof... |
26 March 2008
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Microsoft turns to the open source world for inspiration on interoperability and multi-platform compatibility. At least as far as its Open XML file format is concerned. The Redmond company's Italian branch has teamed up with Sourcesense, a European open source systems integrator in order to deliver additional su... |
20 March 2008
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Microsoft has poured a great deal of effort in turning Open XML, the default format of the Office 2007 System, into an international standard. According to the Redmond company, in excess of 14 months of work went into fine tuning Open XML, turned into the Ecma International Standard (Ecma 376) in December 2006, in or... |
18 March 2008
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At the end of February 2008, Microsoft set course on a new path, governed by new interoperability principles. The Redmond company essentially focused its new course on delivering a bridge designed to connect its proprietary solutions and standards, and third-party software and formats. Among the first steps done in t... |
7 March 2008
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Microsoft kicked off Office 2008 for Mac on the first day of the Macworld Conference & Expo 2008. But unlike its counterpart for the Windows operating system, the Office 2007 System, Office 2008 will have to work its way to global availability. The Redmond company only informed that the debut of Office 2008 means th... |
16 January 2008
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The Open XML file format, debuted concomitantly with the launch of the office 2007 System, and is currently on its way to becoming an ISO standard, a detail that would position it as a direct alternative to OpenOffice's Open Document Format. In this context, Microsoft announced a new initiative designed to serve... |
14 November 2007
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Microsoft aims to spread its Office 2007 System love all around. And the Redmond company will stop at nothing in order to do so. The fact of the matter is that behind the international standardization process of the Open XML file format is a strategy to completely overshadow OpenOffice with the Office 2007 System. In... |
4 September 2007
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Office Open XML, the default document format of the Office 2007 System, is leading the adoption of XML-based standards in both Europe and the United States, according to an IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. The Redmond company applauded the fact that Open XML is the dominant XML standard taking the wind out of Op... |
28 August 2007
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Microsoft will stop at nothing to drive the ratification of Open XML (the native file format of the Office 2007System) as an international standard. In this sense, the Redmond Company is gathering additional support for the Ecma Open XML-Open Document Format Translator Project from the Linux side of the trenches. Mic... |
10 July 2007
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Sun ODF Plugin 1.0 for Microsoft Office has gone live and is available for download immediately. Sun informed that not only is the plugin free, but that it also brings to the table Support and Service contracts. Sun ODF Plugin 1.0 is just one example out of a long line of solutions for the Office Suite designed to de... |
6 July 2007
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Linspire is one of the open source distributors, along with Novell and Xandros, to jump on Microsoft's Windows - Linux interoperability and software assurance wagon. Linspire is the maker of a distribution of Linux having the same name as the company, but formerly named Lindows, a trademark over which Microsoft ... |
2 July 2007
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Following the intense efforts to establish the Open XML file format as an international standard, and to directly rival OpenOffice's Open Document Format, Microsoft has debuted an initiative designed to take the XML Paper Specification (XPS) through the same process and offer an alternative to Adobe's Porta... |
2 July 2007
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Microsoft has a conflicting relationship with OpenOffice. After last week's patent infringement allegations, the Redmond Company now delivers additional support for the open source productivity suite. Via SourceForge.net - Microsoft's open source project - the company has made available for download the bet... |
21 May 2007
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Microsoft has revealed the fact that it has cast a positive vote in support of the addition of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.0 to the nonexclusive American National Standards list, after on Monday, it accused free and open source software, including Linux and OpenOffice, of violating no less than 235 of its patents. Mi... |
17 May 2007
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Microsoft has further banned Mac users from accessing the new file formats integrated into the 2007 Office System. In the context of building Office 2008 for Mac, Microsoft has traded-off the file converters for Office 2004. According to the Redmond Company, delaying the Open XML support for Office 2004 for Mac was a... |
16 May 2007
05:39 GMT |
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