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.More on yesterdays ODF announcement- May 22, 2008 Gray Knowlton had a great post yesterday laying out more of the details on the "Save as ODF" functionality that will be built in natively for Office 2007 SP2: http:blogs.technet.comgray_knowltonarchive20080521microsoft-adds-save-as-odf-to-office-2007-service-pack-2.aspx Even though ODF 1.0 is the official ISO version of the format, the decision was made to use version 1.1 which had some accessibility improvements. Hopefully future versions of ODF will be brought back to ISO so that we have a...http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/05/22/more-on-yesterday-s-odf-announcement.... ODF support in Office- May 21, 2008 I took a few weeks off recently, which is why my blog has been fairly inactive the past month. I wanted to take a quick moment to point out some big news that's been in the works for some time now. Today we announced a number of developments in the document formats arena. Doug Mahugh has all the information up on his blog: http:blogs.msdn.comdmahugharchive20080521office-support-for-document-format-standards.aspx The key bit of news that I think many folks will find surprising, but is actually..http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/05/21/odf-support-in-office.aspx |