Brian Jones: Open XML FormatsI'm Brian Jones, a program manager in Office. I've been working on the XML functionality and file formats in Office for about 6 years now. In this blog, I'll mainly focus on XML in Office and the Open XML File Formats coming in the 2007 Microsoft Office system.ISO takes full control - SC34 now moving forward on maintenance and evolution of Open XML- April 9, 2008 I'm heading home from Norway in the morning, but wanted to give a quick update on the progress made over the past few days. I was attending the SC34 meetings in Oslo and there was a good amount of focus on document format standards (SC34, as designated by JTC1, is the maintenance body for Open XML). In the meetings, we had some great discussions around the next steps for ISOIEC IS29500 (Open XML), as well as 26300 (ODF), and the topic of interoperabilityharmonization. Today was the day that all.http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/04/09/iso-takes-full-control-sc34-now-movin... Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war- April 1, 2008 I'm sure many folks have seen the news by now that Open XML has been approved as an ISOIEC standard (IS 29500). Based on the numbers I've seen, looking at the P member countries there are now 24 who vote "yes", and only 8 vote "no". This puts the P member approval at 75% easily passing the 23 majority needed. Of the overall votes (both O and P members combined) 61 countries votes "yes" and only 10 voted "no" which puts the overall approval at 86% (so only 14% no). This puts us well below the...http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/04/01/open-xml-overwhelmingly-approved-as-a... |