Official 2007

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

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

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