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Monday, March 31, 2008 3:50 PM

Open XML Resources for Developers

Doug has a great post today that helps get us back to what really matters in this whole file format discussion (at least if you're a developer). He links to a number of existing resources that can help folks who are just now getting started with Open
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Monday, March 31, 2008 4:35 AM

German standards body responds to "incorrect and misleading" reports

Via Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/31/din-responds-to-quot-incorrect-and-misleading-quot-reports.aspx -Brian
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Friday, March 28, 2008 10:17 AM

Norway vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Norway has also decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500 (Open XML). http://www.standard.no/imaker.exe?id=18594 Norway had initially voted "no with comments" in September, so it's great to see that they now feel Open XML is ready to be an ISO
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Friday, March 28, 2008 10:14 AM

South Korea vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Oliver Bell just informed me that South Korea has decided to vote for approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML) as an ISO standard. This is a change from their original "no with comments" posisiton they took back in September, and is great news. South Korea was
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Friday, March 28, 2008 6:59 AM

Denmark vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Jesper Lund Stocholm is reporting that Denmark has decided to change their initial vote of "no" in September to "yes" for ISO approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML). Here is a pointer to the press release: http://www.ds.dk/4225 As Stephen McGibbon put it: "Denmark
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:47 PM

Finland vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Here's the official statement, although it's in Finnish: http://www.sfs.fi/ajankohtaista/tiedotteet/20080327195555.html Finland had initially voted "abstain" back in September, but they have now decided to change their vote to "yes" in support of DIS
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:31 AM

Another example of Open XML as a submission format...

Just saw this on Pablo's blog : Covering yet another set of scientific disciplines, last month the folks from ArXiv (the largest repository for Physics, also very popular for Math and Computer Science papers) posted the news that they now accept OpenXML
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:58 AM

The OSP will apply to DIS 29500 (Open XML) going forward

Oliver has a post today discussing this, as it's come up a lot in the discussions he's been having: http://osrin.net/2008/03/27/the-osp-will-apply-to-future-versions-of-dis29500/ -Brian
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:14 PM

Miguel de Icaza’s views on Open XML, and what the next steps should be

Interesting post from Miguel today: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-26.html I have been reading the OOXML storm in a teacup for more than a year now. Am looking forward to the approval of OOXML as an ISO standard and to be able to move the discussion
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:31 PM

Video clip of the add-in for authoring Scientific Articles

If you want to get an idea of how the add-in works, Pablo has posted a short video: Pablo suggested skipping to about 4:40 into the video to see the actual solution. For more information on the add-in, check out the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia/archive/2008/03/25/short-video-clip-on-the-add-in.aspx
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:16 PM

HP in favor of Open XML

www.hp.com/go/officedocumentstandards "In the current vote on OOXML at JTC 1, HP is supporting an affirmative vote in those national standards bodies in which HP is active." -Brian
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:04 AM

Czech vote is now “yes” for Open XML

I just saw this on Stephen McGibbon's website: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/25/czech-republic-votes-to-approve-dis29500.aspx The Czech Republic has decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500. The Czech national body (led by Jirka Kosek
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:56 PM

Can I mention that it’s also in ODF?

I try to keep the discussion on this blog primarily focused on the area I care most about, the technology behind Open XML. Every so often I've mentioned ODF, especially when discussing the translation and harmonization updates, but in terms of discussing
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Monday, March 24, 2008 11:30 AM

ODF editor believes Open XML standardization is good for ODF

Via Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/24/durusau-quot-opendocument-among-others-will-lose-if-openxml-loses-quot.aspx " Patrick Durusau has posted another thoughtful contribution to the document formats standardisation debate" -Bria
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Monday, March 24, 2008 11:20 AM

German technical committee votes “yes” on Open XML

There was an article published last week that describes the results of the voting in the technical committee of the German National Body for Standardization (DIN). DIN has been leading the way on a number of areas relating to file formats including the
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:32 PM

Out of time?

I wanted to talk about some of the comments I wish we could have dealt with but we didn't have enough time. We'll need to follow up with the national body for more information, and deal with it in maintenance. Here's the full list if you are interested
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:53 AM

Using Open XML to author scientific and technical articles

Pablo Fernicola has the news today that we've released a tech preview of an article authoring add-in for word 2007. This add-in leverages the Open XML formats to translate into the XML formats defined by the National Library of Medicine. http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia/archive/2008/03/20/Technology-Preview-Launch.aspx
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:54 PM

Ongoing support for IS 29500 (Open XML)

We're a couple weeks away from the final decision on whether DIS 29500 will become IS 29500 and if ISO will take on the stewardship of the Open XML formats. We already had a good preview of the type of work we can achieve within the SC34 group over the
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:00 PM

Narrative of the ISO/IEC DIS-29500 BRM Meeting

BRM Summary I wanted to take the time to give a narrative of what actually happened in the BRM, since we're now moving onto the final phase and I wanted to get this all in writing before I forgot. I wanted to give an overview of the topics discussed based
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:03 PM

Interesting Links (March 13 2008)

Gray looks into some of the recent thoughts from Patrick Durusau: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/03/12/within-minutes.aspx Accessibility update from Reed, and some news on the activities so far at CSUN: http://blogs.technet.com/reedblog/archive/2008/03/10/microsoft-at-csun.aspx
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Monday, March 10, 2008 1:44 PM

Object embedding in Open XML

There were some concerns raised earlier on that the Open XML format required a specific object embedding to be used (OLE). While it's true that the tag names in the format have "OLE" in them, the embedding is actually generic, and can use other technologies
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Friday, March 07, 2008 1:03 PM

U.S. TC will approve Open XML as an ISO standard

Doug Mahugh just posted about a call this afternoon where the U.S. V1 technical committee reviewed the results of last week’s BRM and has voted to approve DIS 29500: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2008/03/07/us-v1-technical-committee-votes-to-recommend-approval-of-dis-29500.aspx
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:57 AM

ODF editor speaks out in support of Open XML

Patrick Durusau, the editor for ODF 1.0 and 1.2, as well as the chair of INCITS V1, has a new post where he talks about his change of opinion. He is now in support of the ISO approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML). http://www.durusau.net/publications/onbeingheard.pdf
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:23 PM

More thoughts on last weeks BRM

Here's a bit more information on the results of the BRM last week, and where we go from here. There were about 1,000 comments/issues raised last year with the spec, and starting last fall Ecma began posting responses and proposed changes to the specification
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