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Discussions around the next version of Office. Most likely this will be about the Office Open XML Formats.

Interoperability by design

posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:41 AM by BrianJones
Today we announced the formation of a new customer council focused on interoperability (how to make technologies work better together). I'm sure you've noticed over time that Microsoft has made a strong commitment to work towards better interoperability, Read More
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Learn more about Word 2007's support for seperating data from presentation

posted Monday, June 12, 2006 2:51 PM by BrianJones
If you're heading out to TechEd this week like I am, you should definitely plan on attending Tristan Davis' talk on Thursday afternoon that covers the new functionality in Word 2007 for custom XML solutions. This talk goes into great detail on the Read More
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TechEd Boston

posted Friday, June 09, 2006 7:56 AM by BrianJones
Who else is going to be heading out to Boston next week for Tech Ed 2006? I'll be out there for a couple days in the middle of the week. I'm presenting Wednesday from 5:30-6:45, so be sure to swing by and say hi. Here's the information on my session: Read More
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Word XHTML - Mapping styles to semantics

posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:42 AM by BrianJones
This is the third post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature. In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML as well as a more detailed post on XHML compliance. Today Zeyad is discussing the ways Read More
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Thoughts on Open XML in ISO

posted Monday, June 05, 2006 11:30 AM by BrianJones
As we move forward with the standardization of the Office Open XML formats, it's interesting to look at the motivations that brought us to this point, but also to think about what is still to come. We've wanted to provide folks with easier ways to work Read More
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Follow-up on PDF legal issues

posted Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:29 AM by BrianJones
There have been a ton of really great comments and questions today in relation to the news that we are going to have to pull our PDF and XPS publish support out of Office 2007. We will still offer the PDF and XPS publish functionality as a free download, Read More
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Legal issues around PDF support

posted Friday, June 02, 2006 7:23 AM by BrianJones
About 8 months ago we announced to our MVPs that we would provide PDF publish support natively in the 2007 Office system. We made the move due to overwhelming customer demand for PDF support, and it was received really well. The blog post I made around Read More
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Highlighting in a document

posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 7:00 AM by BrianJones
I've had a lot of folks ask me to provide more information on what features are missing from ODF and why it was that we decided to create out own XML format (Open XML). I didn't want to get too involved in pulling together a full detailed list, but it's Read More
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Spreadsheet performance - Shared Formulas

posted Monday, May 29, 2006 4:05 AM by BrianJones
I wanted to follow up on the thread I started a couple weeks ago discussing the design goals behind spreadsheetML. There's a whole host of things we've done to make sure that the move to XML formats is a huge benefit to developers, without it actually Read More
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Numbering formats in ODF

posted Friday, May 26, 2006 4:24 AM by BrianJones
I was wondering if someone more familiar with the ODF spec could help me out. I had made the following reply yesterday to Alex's assertion that ODF was as feature rich as Open XML and I want to make sure that I'm not misstating things: I think you Read More
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The 2007 Office system... already over 500,000 served

posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:40 PM by BrianJones
I saw this article up on betanews this afternoon saying that just 24 hours after going live, there were already 200,000 downloads of Beta 2. I thought that was pretty impressive and asked a few folks about it. It turns out that we're actually now Read More
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Easy way to send us your feedback

posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:09 PM by BrianJones
There is now a really easy way to provide feedback as you are using Office 2007. Directly from Joe Friend's blog: Sending Feedback We have a great program called "Send a Smile" that provides you the opportunity to tell us what you think about the Read More
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Beta downloads and One year anniversary

posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:26 PM by BrianJones
Hard to believe it's only been a year since I first started blogging... so much has happened. It's really great that we went out so early with the news of the file format change, we started talking about it an entire year before we shipped a public Read More
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4000 pages of documentation

posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 4:01 AM by BrianJones
There has been a great overall reaction to the news last week of Ecma's first public draft for the Office Open XML formats. One thing that is now absolutely clear to everyone that we are talking about an extremely rich and powerful set of file formats. Read More
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Use the Open XML formats today with Office XP & Office 2003

posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:53 PM by BrianJones
A coworker of mine, just reminded me that for those folks interested in using the new Open XML formats but don't want to upgrade to Office 2007 Beta 2, we also released a public preview of the compatibility packs (thanks Jon!). This is one Read More
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