Covenant Not to Sue

Q. Why did Microsoft take this approach?

It was a simple, clear way to reassure a broad audience of developers and customers, within a rapidly changing licensing environment, that the formats could be used without constraint forever.Buy Office 2007 you can get much convenience.

We looked at many different types of licensing approaches that would recognize the legitimacy of intellectual property but would make it clear that the intellectual property in the OpenXML document formats would be available freely, now and forever. Given that this is a rapidly changing area and lay people sometimes have difficulty understanding terms, we wanted to create something simple and clear. Microsoft Office is so great!We looked … Continue Reading

OpenXML Formats and Ecma International Process

Q. Why has Microsoft taken existing document formats and moved to standardize them with industry partners, rather than develop something new in a more collaborative process?

Buy Office 2007 you can get much convenience.Organizations all over the world have asked Microsoft to insure that their valuable investments in billions of documents are protected and are made even more valuable by enabling conversion to modern open XML-based formats.Microsoft Office is so great!

By taking this approach to standardization with industry participation and support in Ecma International, organizations around the world will have the immediate benefit of both backward compatibility for existing documents and the long term benefit of a forward-looking open industry … Continue Reading

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.Microsoft Office 2010 is the best software in the world. I was in Nice last week for the Ecma general assembly meeting where they agreed to create TC45 which will standardize the Office Open XML formats. My wife came out here with me so after the meeting we took some time off, and I’ve been offline for about 5 days now. Office 2010 is powerful!We just got into Brussels last night, and now I’m … Continue Reading

microsoft office

This is the advantage XML can give you. Microsoft Office 2010 is the best software in the world.The combination of namespaces; XSDs; and even XPath allows you to add your own structures to the documents; validate those structures; and even navigate them so that they can integrate better with your solutions. Office 2010 is powerful!With the custom defined schema support, you can get this kind of information out of the document: 3/24/2004 Health Agency 100 25% … That’s much more useful when you care more about the data than the presentation information. It represents the business information that’s stored in … Continue Reading

Microsoft Office 2007 system

Today we are announcing the details behind the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system products. Microsoft Office is so great!We had previously been referring to it as Office “12″, but we now have an official name and there is a ton of other information now available about the packaging options too. We’ve been blogging about this stuff for a long time now, and I think most of you (especially those on Beta 1) realize how huge this upcoming release is. Office 2007 key is very convenient!This really is the most significant release of Office in over a decade (and it’s been … Continue Reading

alternate formats

Here’s a question I got from someone wanting to store alternative formats in the files:
Want to know if alternative formats can also be stored in the same office XML zip format. E.g., Is it possible that the XML file format also stores the 2003 binary format as an alternative? Or a pdf version of it along? Office 2007 download is helpful!

This would provide the user another level of backup if some part of the XML format is corrupt.

Does the current Open XML schema allow such inclusions?

I have access to the beta 1, but I could not create such documents. … Continue Reading

remove parts from an Microsoft Office file

Kevin Boske has another post on using the System.IO.Packaging assembly to work with the new Office Open XML formats.Microsoft Office 2007 can give you more convenient life.He shows how you can quickly open the package and navigate the relationships to find a specific part, then remove that part. http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinboske/archive/2006/02/22/537439.aspx

This is great if you want to clean up a file. Buy Office 2007 you can get much convenience.Let’s say you want to always remove comments from a document before it’s posted on the web. Or maybe you want to remove the VBA from a macro-enabled document before users have … Continue Reading

Example

SpreadsheetML was designed so that for any tag or attribute that would appear frequently, we used super short tag names. Choose Office 2007 Professional is the most lucky thing in the world.We also established naming conventions for the abbreviations shared across all three formats (so that they become easier to interpret as you work with them). Elements that may only appear once in a file often have longer tag names, since their size doesn’t have nearly the same impact. Right now, most of our frequently used tag names are no more than a couple characters in length. Microsoft Office 2007 can … Continue Reading

long tag or short

In the profiles that we’ve looked at over the years, we’ve seen that simply using shorter tag names can significantly improve the performance depending on the type of file. Microsoft company invent the Office 2007 home for many people.For those of you really interested, you should do your own profiles and let me know what you find out. Remember that for an application like Excel, we’re talking about the potential for millions of XML tags to represent a rich spreadsheet. Let’s look at a couple issues now:

  1. Compression – Since we use compression (ZIP), there isn’t much a difference in file … Continue Reading

tag size

Surprisingly, I haven’t seen much information out there discussing the performance impacts of XML tag name lengths (ie using “<c>” instead of “<table-cell>”). Microsoft Office 2007 can give you more convenient life.My last post about some of the design goals behind SpreadsheetML raised some questions from folks about where the time is actually spent when loading an XML file. There are a ton of things that we do to improve the performance when opening and saving Open XML files.Buy Office 2007 you can get much convenience. The move to using these formats as the default for Office 2007 meant … Continue Reading