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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats

I'm Brian Jones, a program manager in Office. I've been working on the XML functionality and file formats in Office for about 5 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.

December 2005 - Posts

Back from the Ecma meetings
I just back back from Brussels and the first meeting of Ecma's TC45 ; it was an awesome start and I'm extremely excited about the work we have ahead of us. The initial draft of the standard was submitted by Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Read More...

Posted Monday, December 19, 2005 1:47 PM by BrianJones | 24 Comments

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More answers to questions around standardization and licensing
I think this is the longest I've gone between posts since I started blogging back in June. I've been out here in Europe for the past two weeks, for a combination of work and a little time off. I was in Nice last week for the Ecma general assembly meeting Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:44 AM by BrianJones | 18 Comments

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Example Word '12' document from Beta 1 with hyperlink and image
I just posted another example document if any is interested. http://jonesxml.com/resources/hyperlinkandimage.docx For those of you that got a copy of Beta 1, the file will be compatible with your build, so you can open it and take a look. This is an extremely Read More...

Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 12:21 PM by BrianJones | 15 Comments

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