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MS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU The royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its upcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the GNU General Public License and will thus prevent many free and open-source software projects from using the formats, community officials say. Read more here about Microsoft's introduction of new Open XML Formats in Office 12. When asked for clarification on whether the license for the Open XML Formats would be compatible with the GPL, a Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK that "we don't want to make the habit of commenting on others' licenses. www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,1829355,00.asp

Open XML Incompatible With GPL However, Microsoft has included a provision that requires developers who use Office Open XML Formats to attribute the use of the file format in their code. The royalty-free license under which Microsoft Corp. plans to make its upcoming Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the GNU General Public License and will prevent many open-source and free-software projects from using them, advocates say. Jean Paoli, senior director of XML architecture for Microsoft, said, "Microsoft is committed to open XML file formats, and this move shows that we have moved away from binary content that no one can access." www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1829728,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Powerpoint in TutorGig Encyclopedia Microsoft Office Standard Student and Teacher Edition 2004 Macintosh, by Microsoft Microsoft Office Standard Student and Teacher Edition 2003, by Microsoft Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Enhanced (Shelly Cashman Series), by Course Technology www.tutorgig.com /es/Powerpoint

Open Office XML May Satisfy ISO The commission also made two specific requests: that [Sun] consider taking the Open Office XML Format, currently under construction at OASIS, to ISO for consideration as an International Standard; and that [Sun] implement a set of filters to allow software to interoperate between the Open Office and Microsoft Office XML file formats. Tim Bray, Sun director of Web Technologies and co-author of the XML standard, said in his Weblog that the EC entertained members of both the OpenOffice and Microsoft teams to illustrate how well their XML-based office document formats could work. Both Sun's StarOffice and its open source counterpart, OpenOffice.org, are emerging as leading alternatives to Microsoft Office on the Windows platform, according to Sun's statistics. internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/3414101

OpenOffice.org 1.1 Product Description If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. You can of course continue to use your old Microsoft Office files without any problems - and if you need to exchange files with people still using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either. OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. www.openoffice.org /product

OpenDocument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The OpenDocument format is intended to provide an open alternative to proprietary document formats including the popular DOC, XLS, and PPT formats used by Microsoft Office, as well as Microsoft Office Open XML format (this latter format has various licensing requirements that forbid some competitors from using it). OpenDocument is the only standard for editable office documents that has been vetted by an independent recognized standards body, has been implemented by multiple vendors, and can be implemented by any supplier (including proprietary software vendors and developers using the GNU GPL). In particular, the GPL is used by many competing office applications such as the entire KOffice office suite, the Gnumeric spreadsheet program, and the Abiword word processor. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_Office_XML

Will Office 2003 Lead to Lock-in? Edwards said that Office 2003 beta's handling of the XML file format means that firms will not be able to tap the rich collaborative features of Open Office 2003 without resorting to proprietary Microsoft file formats. He noted that he opened a heavily formatted.doc Microsoft Word file, saved the file as XML, and later opened the file in Word 2003. XML information conforming to open standards can easily be transformed or translated from a shared business process, back and forth, into the many disparate information systems, enabling these legacy systems and data silos to directly participate and interact at the point of transaction. www.internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/2109101

Microsoft Office - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch Office 2003 introduced a new, optional file format for the entire suite, built on XML technology. Microsoft Office is a series of suites of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. Office X for Mac is also built to handle this file format. encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /microsoft_office.htm

Microsoft adopts XML for Office formats The Register Office XML Open Format is also being published by Microsoft on a royalty-free basis to the industry, potentially opening the format to third parties to develop interoperability with Office. Office XML Open Format is Microsoft's latest step in a move to XML that has opened up Office, but, according to skeptics, has failed to provide complete interoperability with rival suites, like Sun Microsystems' StarOffice. In November 2003 Microsoft announced it was releasing the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas, consisting of WordprocessingML and SpreadsheetML among other formats, on a royalty-free basis. www.theregister.co.uk /2005/06/03/_office_xml

Eclectic Echoes: Microsoft's XML, Open Office & Bruce Perens: Patent Threats XML was hailed as a lingua franca that could be used as the glue between dissimilar systems. It’s now on three more computers that shipped with MS Word or Microsoft’s stripped down Works package. They, like most users, are task driven, not technology or philosophy driven in their computer use. heupel.com /eclectic/2004/01/24/office-xml-patent-linux

Column Two: OASIS Open Office XML The aim is to further develop a common set of XML standards for interoperability between Office packages (notable is the lack of Microsoft involvement). The Register reports on the recent establishment of the OASIS Open Office XML Format Technical Committee. OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has a reputation for driving practical efforts forward, standing in contrast with W3C's recent lack of direction. www.steptwo.com.au /columntwo/archives/000383.html

Erwin's StarOffice Tango The outcome was a recommendation for open XML based document file formats and some requests/recommendations to Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice.org uses an open XML file format that had been designed as an implementation/product agnostic document file format. This file format was chosen as the basis for the OASIS Open Office XML Format that future versions of OpenOffice.org and the StarOffice software will implement. blogs.sun.com /roller/page/dancer/20041115

Microsoft Chooses Native XML File Format as Default in Office 12 Microsoft gives XML (and developers) a big boost by making the Office Open XML format the default in Office 12, giving enterprises the choice of XML or binary format, and offering a patch to ensure forward-compatibility for older Office versions. The Office Open XML format is public and royalty-free, and the XML-formatted documents can be read and processed with any XML-processing language or tool. Even better, Microsoft has compressed Office output by zipping the XML, which Microsoft claims can make Office files up to 75 percent smaller (they had to do that or the new files wouldn't be smaller, they'd be larger than the older binary format). www.devx.com /xml/Article/28298/1954?pf=true

Buggin' My Life Away : Microsoft Office Open XML Formats Win Office is already well ahead of Mac Office in terms of support for XML, and the state of XML parsing on Panther is, well, less than desirable (among other things, the version of libXML that ships on Panther doesn't support SAX 2.0's namespace changes). The other is that, for the first time in the history of Office, we're attempting to ship a major architectural change that's being simultaneously implemented by both the Windows and Macintosh groups as separate business units. Open a PPT presentation using an audio codec that's not available and you will receive no error, and no indication that you're missing information. blogs.msdn.com /rick_schaut/archive/2005/06/01/424086.aspx

tecosystems: Microsoft Office Open XML Formats: "We Already Got One" Since MS XML looks to be a clone of OpenDoc XML, i think it's disingenuous to imply that Microsoft put so much time and effort into creating a duplicate XML file format to meet their "legacy" needs. Office is clearly ahead of Open Office at the moment on the usability and feature/function fronts. MS "Open" XML, and the attending MS XML Reference License are examples of MS "Shared Source" masquerading as "Open" and "Standard". www.redmonk.com /sogrady/archives/000732.html

Microsoft pries open Office 2003 CNET News.com The move also allays some concerns expressed before Office 2003 was released that the XML-based Office file formats could only be read by Microsoft software. Building XML data labeling technology into its Office applications is a critical underpinning for Office 2003, allowing the company to introduce advances around collaboration and digital rights management. The Danish government is already using the XML schema in a project to standardize document formats to enable simpler data access. news.com.com /2100-1016-5108018.html

Alternatives to Microsoft Office Creating an open office file format suggests that documents created in an application that supports that file format could be opened in other applications that support it as well. If you are heavily involved in macro programming Ms Office 2003 is the only way to go and you need to shell the money to Microsoft (In the USA via partner programs you can buy Ms Office Professional and Windows 2003 server for $300 or so). Upon opening the file, the user is presented with an option to apply article2wordml.xsl to the document, yielding the editing view we saw above. www.softpanorama.org /Editors/altoffice.shtml

A Life Without Compunction » Blog Archive » Microsoft Office Open XML The formats, called Microsoft Office Open XML, will debut in the second half of 2006 with Office 12 and constitute a dramatic upgrade to Office and a broad extension of Microsoft’s XML strategy - without the direction of standards bodies. Ratcheting up its support of XML, Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will release a new Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology that replaces existing Office file formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint with fully-documented, royalty free formats. Let’s hope that other office suites pick up on it as well since it is “open”. www.djohnson.info /2005/06/02/microsoft-office-open-xml

Open Office XML Format Will Probably Become an ISO Standard :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software This story started for me back in March when an OpenOffice team and a Microsoft team were invited to present to the European Commission on the relative merits of their XML-based office document formats. Open Office XML Format Will Probably Become an ISO Standard Open Office XML Format Will Probably Become an ISO Standard :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software www.shots.osdir.com /Article1696.phtml

The future of Microsoft Office: Get information about the next release Microsoft Office "12" is being redesigned to make it easier for people to find and use the features and commands they need to get the results they want. During the coming months we will be announcing exciting new capabilities that will be part of the next release of Microsoft Office products, currently code-named Microsoft Office "12." Visit this site often for the latest news, and register to get the beta when it's available. The New Microsoft Office User Interface will make working with Microsoft Office easier and more productive—meaning, better results faster. www.microsoft.com /office/preview/default.mspx

Microsoft Office 2003 and XML WordML - The XML Behind the Word Document www.simonstl.com /articles/officeXML

Microsoft Office Open XML Formats Guide Free tools will enable users of Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2003 to open and save to the new formats, so that everyone can benefit from this innovation. This change represents a large step forward in extending the Microsoft commitment to XML, industry-standard integration technologies, and to open, published file format specifications. These new formats will enable organizations to integrate Microsoft Office completely and successfully into their enterprise architectures. www.microsoft.com /office/preview/fileguide.mspx

How open is the new Office? CNET News.com Microsoft executives acknowledged that the company's XML support in Office is governed by a proprietary schema and that XML documents created by Office 11 applications may not be readable in a competing product. Microsoft's position has led analysts, competitors and software developers to complain that the company's efforts to open up Office file formats are half-hearted. Text in Office 11 files stored in XML format might be viewable in other desktop programs, but all document formatting would be lost and most other files would be unreadable. news.com.com /2100-1001-977880.html   (1694 words)

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas Microsoft confirmed in a recent letter to the European Union’s Telematics Between Administrations Committee that the rights granted under the licenses for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are perpetual in nature and that Microsoft will provide non-discriminatory access to future versions of those specifications. Senior Director and XML Architect Jean Paoli discusses the new file format for the next versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are offered under a royalty-free license. www.microsoft.com /office/xml/default.mspx   (667 words)

What's behind Microsoft's Office moves? CNET News.com Microsoft has made extensive XML support one of the key selling points for Office 2003, with the widely adopted standard promising more fluid exchange of data between Office documents and enterprise computing systems. Microsoft announced that starting Dec. 5, customers and partners will be able to view the unique Extensible Markup Language (XML) dialects, or "schemas," used by three of the most common Office applications: Word, Excel and InfoPath. Microsoft customers will gain access to the sophisticated formatting and organizational information included in Office documents. news.com.com /2100-1012-5111644.html   (1657 words)

support: OpenOffice.org Support Free introduction to the XML that serves as the native internal format of OpenOffice.org, an open source, cross-platform office suite. Guide to using OpenOffice.org with emphasis on the transition from Microsoft Office. OOoSwitch: 501 Things You Want to Know About Switching to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office (Buy from Amazon or from the publisher) support.openoffice.org   (484 words)

» Microsoft Office versus Open Office shootout George Ou ZDNet.com Open Office is the cream of the crop as far as free software goes, but I couldn't stand idly by while so many people make patently false statements about Microsoft Windows and Office bloat. Open Office development is supported by donations while Microsoft Office is supported by a massive commercial software development budget. ZDNet reader Yagotta B. Kidding took it upon himself to do some testing with Open Office but he stopped testing when he reached a file half the size of my 16-sheet XML file, yet his results were even slower than my Excel results. blogs.zdnet.com /Ou/index.php?p=101   (1174 words)

Microsoft Office - Open Encyclopedia Office 2003 introduced a new file format for the entire suite, built on XML technology. Microsoft Office is a series of suites of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. Office X for Mac is also built to handle this file format. open-encyclopedia.com /Microsoft_Office   (711 words)

about: About Us: OpenOffice.org To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS. However, because of the nature of open source, the community at large is ultimately responsible for realizing OpenOffice.org's promises. about.openoffice.org /index.html   (1673 words)

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