Analyst: MS Office Formats Not Open

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Follow-up: MS Office Formats Not Open

Follow-up: MS Office Formats Not Open 02/01/2005 09:43 PM

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As we reported here, Robert Scoble first announced that certain elements of Microsoft Office would become Open Source. Now it looks like MS might have taken a few liberties with the term. Read the article above and see what you think.

Mac Office 12 to Get XML Formats, Too

Mac Office 12 to Get XML Formats, Too 06/05/2005 11:59 PM
Rick Shaut, a member of the Macintosh Office team, wrote in his Web log that the Macintosh version of Office 12 will also support the Office Open XML format announced Thursday for its Windows counterpart. He also admitted Microsoft Mac Business Unit had fallen behind on XML support within the Office Suite.

Office 12 to Get New File Formats

Office 12 to Get New File Formats 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
Microsoft is making XML-based file formats the default in its next-generation Office suite. Will users bite or take flight?

Office 12 to use XML for file formats

Office 12 to use XML for file formats 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
Microsoft is embracing XML as the default file format for the next version of Microsoft Office. Is that good news for competing office apps?

Office 12 to Feature New XML File
Formats

Office 12 to Feature New XML File
Formats 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
On Thursday, the company is set to disclose the new XML file formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint that will be built into the next version of Office, due out in the latter half of 2006.

Mac Office 12 Will Support XML File
Formats, Too

Mac Office 12 Will Support XML File
Formats, Too 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
We haven't heard much about the next version of Mac Office, dubbed Mac Office 12. But we do know now that Microsoft is aiming to make sure it supports the same XML file formats that the company announced Thursday for the Windows version of the desktop office suite.

Microsoft Office Formats Not Really
Being Opened

Microsoft Office Formats Not Really
Being Opened 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
Slashdot Feb 1 2005 1:14PM GMT

Microsoft to Adopt XML Formats in Office
12

Microsoft to Adopt XML Formats in Office
12 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Microsoft will use XML to make Word, Excel and PowerPoint more secure and efficient in Office 12.

Office 12 XML Formats Seen As Risky For
Microsoft

Office 12 XML Formats Seen As Risky For
Microsoft 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Information Week Jun 6 2005 3:26AM GMT

Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats

Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats 01/24/2004 07:06 AM
Slashdot Jan 24 2004 10:14AM GMT

Open document formats

Open document formats 06/17/2004 11:33 AM
Last week Tim Bray wrote about his (and Sun's) involvement in the European Commission's investigation into the OpenOffice and Microsoft flavors of XML office documents. The upshot:

You can find the Committee's conclusions here; they're short, readable, and defy summarization. [ongoing]

The conclusions are indeed concise, and the bulleted recommendations even more so. I'll quote them here, changing only <ul> to <ol> for ease of reference:

Therefore, it is recommended that:

1. The OASIS Technical Committee considers whether there is a need and opportunity for extending the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to allow for custom-defined schemas;
2. Industry actors not currently involved with the OASIS Open Document Format consider participating in the standardisation process in order to encourage a wider industry consensus around the format;
3. Submission of the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to an official standardisation organisation such as ISO is considered;
4. Microsoft considers issuing a public commitment to publish and provide non-discriminatory access to future versions of its WordML specifications;
5. Microsoft should consider the merits of submitting XML formats to an international standards body of their choice;
6. Microsoft assesses the possibility of excluding non-XML formatted components from WordML documents;
7. Industry is encouraged to provide filters that allow documents based on the WordML specifications and the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to be read and written to other applications whilst maintaining a maximum degree of faithfulness to content, structure and presentation. These filters should be made available for all products;
8. Industry is encouraged to provide the appropriate tools and services to allow the public sector to consider feasibility and costs of a transformation of its documents to XML-based formats;
9. The public sector is encouraged to provide its information through several formats. Where by choice or circumstance only a single revisable document format can be used this should be for a format around which there is industry consensus, as demonstrated by the format's adoption as a standard.

...

Pining For Open File Formats

Pining For Open File Formats 09/08/2004 04:52 AM
I still seethe over all the extra work, and silly hoops I had to jump through, because vendors feel compelled to create proprietary formats for storing information, and make it hard for other people's software to simply read and write the information to achieve whatever goals their users might be pursuing. By James Elliott, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Opening Open Formats with XSLT

Opening Open Formats with XSLT 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he finds that four-year old XSLT 1.0 is solving more and more problems as more data becomes available in XML.

Open eBook Forum Courts Controversy Over
Formats

Open eBook Forum Courts Controversy Over
Formats 12/22/2003 02:57 PM
Brad Rigby writes "TeleRead's David Rothman is calling for [1, 2] the replacement of the Open eBook Forum by "an honest trade association" and a related ...

Office 12: The Elephant in the Financial
Analyst Meeting Room

Office 12: The Elephant in the Financial
Analyst Meeting Room 07/29/2004 05:15 PM
While Microsoft execs mentioned Longhorn in passing during their presentations to press and analysts at the Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond on Thursday, no one breathed a word about Microsoft's Office 12, the next major release of Office, expected to ship in the 2006+ timeframe. Senior VP Steven Sinofsky reiterated that Microsoft's information worker unit wants to exploit Longhorn technologies across its product line.

An analyst talks about analysts' open
source coverage

An analyst talks about analysts' open
source coverage 04/04/2005 08:38 AM
IDC vice president Dan Kusnetzky understands the frustration of friends such as HP's Linux Vice President Martin Fink, who complained at the recent Jboss developer event that open source software is not adequately covered by analysts.

Analyst tells CIOs to open the door to
Novell again

Analyst tells CIOs to open the door to
Novell again 03/24/2005 11:39 PM
ZDNet Mar 25 2005 3:41AM GMT

Open MS Office?

Open MS Office? 02/01/2005 09:43 PM

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas

Microsoft is loosening licensing rules on Office 2003 formats in order to get around new "open standard" restrictions to be adopted by the US state of Massachusetts, according to a state official.

The move puts Microsoft on a better footing to compete against open-source applications and non-proprietary document formats. Governments around the world have begun to reconsider the use of proprietary formats, which usually lock them into using particular applications and may hinder archiving efforts.

Open Office Updated to 1.1.2

Open Office Updated to 1.1.2 06/21/2004 05:32 PM
Freshly updated and a few new features.

Microsoft gives governments a more open
Office

Microsoft gives governments a more open
Office 09/21/2004 08:14 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 21 2004 12:44PM GMT

Open Office Wars, Part 7

Open Office Wars, Part 7 06/22/2005 01:55 AM
The saga continues ...

Open Office Wars, Part 6

Open Office Wars, Part 6 06/05/2005 11:46 PM
Brian Jones: New default XML formats in the next version of Office [via Dare Obasanjo] Fresh on the heels of the OpenOffice standard announcement comes this welcome news. ...

Microsoft Office 12 For Mac Will Support
Open XML

Microsoft Office 12 For Mac Will Support
Open XML 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Can Microsoft Sue Open Office Users?

Can Microsoft Sue Open Office Users? 09/16/2004 01:02 PM
Microsoft this week said that is looking for ways to work more closely with developers of the Open Office open source project, while at the same time, apparently reserving the right to sue them, according to a legal agreement between Microsoft and Open Office's major sponsor, Sun Microsystems, made public this week. The agreement in question was signed in April of this year as part of Sun and Microsoft's landmark multibillion dollar settlement. It was released as part of Sun's annual U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings this week.

The April agreement says that Microsoft can seek damages from Open Office users or distributors for any copy of Open Office installed after April 1, 2004. However, users of Sun's commercial distribution of Open Office, called StarOffice, are protected from legal liabilities under the agreement, says Russ Castronovo, a spokesperson for Sun. Open Office includes a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software based on technology Sun acquired in its 1999 purchase of Germany's Star Division. Sun released the code under an open-source license in 2000.

View: The full story
News source: PCWorld

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Open Office Software Development Kit
1.1.0

Open Office Software Development Kit
1.1.0 12/16/2003 04:06 PM
An add-on for OpenOffice.

Features: Hacking Open Office

Features: Hacking Open Office 02/01/2005 08:52 PM
Peter Sefton shows us how to use XML tools to hack Open Office file formats.

Microsoft to open office in Macau

Microsoft to open office in Macau 05/28/2004 04:57 AM
Ponto Final May 28 2004 9:24AM GMT

Open Office Wars, part 4

Open Office Wars, part 4 11/18/2003 12:51 PM

Dare Obasanjo: The biggest gripe when Office 2003's XML support was announced was that the schemas for WordprocessingML (aka WordML) and co. were proprietary. This was reported in a number of fora including Slashdot and C|Net news. I wonder how many will carry the announcements that these schemas are available for all to peruse and reuse in a royalty free manner?

Did I link to one of these?  Yup.  OK, so I will link link to the announcement.  Done.

Note: in my blog entry I didn't "gripe" about the schemas for WordML, my question related to PowerPoint11.

Microsoft pries open Office 2003

Microsoft pries open Office 2003 11/17/2003 11:41 AM
The software heavyweight says it's improving third-party access to its Office 2003 documents by publishing the underlying XML schemas, or file formats, for three of its Office 2003 applications.

Notes and Tips: AppleWorks + Open
Office?

Notes and Tips: AppleWorks + Open
Office? 01/26/2004 10:18 AM
Does it make sense to combine AppleWorks and the Open Office project to give MS Office some competition?

SolOffice, the Open Source Office Suite

SolOffice, the Open Source Office Suite 01/27/2004 05:20 PM
SolOffice Components in CVS have been updated.

French tax office takes up open source

French tax office takes up open source 08/05/2004 04:15 PM
The French tax office chooses JBoss software to run its J2EE-based applications.

Can Microsoft Sue Open Office Users? (PC
World)

Can Microsoft Sue Open Office Users? (PC
World) 09/16/2004 11:09 AM
PC World - Software giant's deal with Sun has raised some questions.

LasVegas-Global.com to Open Flagship
Office in Las Vegas

LasVegas-Global.com to Open Flagship
Office in Las Vegas 07/19/2004 02:52 AM
LasVegas-Global.com new state-of-the-art facility to serve as company headquarters for local search engine. [PRWEB Jul 19, 2004]

Sun-Microsoft deal raises Open Office
questions

Sun-Microsoft deal raises Open Office
questions 09/16/2004 03:18 PM
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said that it is looking for ways to work more closely with developers of the Open Office open source project, while at the same time, apparently reserving the right to sue them, according to a legal agreement between Microsoft and Open Office's major sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc., made public this week.

Create A Flash Presentation For Free
With Open Office

Create A Flash Presentation For Free
With Open Office 07/30/2004 05:32 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 30 2004 8:39PM GMT

World's Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in London

World's Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in London 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
WSI, worldwide leader and leading edge Internet Consulting and Education Company, is proud to announce the launch of a new Internet Consultant (IC) office to serve the South London area. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]

World’s Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in San Jose, California

World’s Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in San Jose, California 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
WSI, worldwide leader and leading edge Internet Consulting and Education Company, is proud to announce the launch of a new Internet Consultant (IC) office to serve the San Jose area and the western states. The office will be doing business as; WSI Elite Net Designs. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

Latest Rokland Office Distribution Helps
Spread of Open Source

Latest Rokland Office Distribution Helps
Spread of Open Source 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
As buzz continues to grow about the rise of open source software, one giant question remains. How will people without broadband be able to obtain open source programs? Most all open source releases are only made available for Internet download by their development groups, thus eliminating access to these programs to anyone without an Internet or broadband connection. Rokland LLC has answered this question with their latest release of Rokland Office Suite, version 2.0. This new CD-ROM brings together some of the most popular and most needed open source programs including a full-featured office suite, email client, and antivirus software. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]
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