In this age of ubiquitous connectivity, we rely on a document format that allows us, our industry, content providers and users choices for accessing billions of legacy documents and, going forward, creating countless more documents. The Open XML open standard achieves that goal. We look forward to seeing Open XML become an ISO standard.

Sam Stravato
CTO
AIC Limited

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Le choix, l'innovation et vous

La communauté Open XML est un groupe d'institutions publiques, d'entreprises, de professionnels de la technologie, d'organismes de formation et de développeurs qui soutiennent ECMA Office Open XML et sa certification par l'ISO/CEI. Cette communauté croit en la promotion du choix, de l'interopérabilité, de l'innovation et de l'excellence technique dans les standards de documents. Poursuivez votre lecture pour découvrir comment Open XML est utilisé sur une large gamme de plateformes technologiques, intégré à divers systèmes et adopté dans le monde entier par nombre d'entreprises et d'administrations.

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Open XML est mis en œuvre par des administrations et des entreprises du monde entier. Découvrez pourquoi ici.

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ACTUALITÉ ET RÉSUMÉS

June 11, 2008

Microsoft's first development kit for Open XML

Microsoft has released version 1 of an SDK (Software Development Kit) for its own Open XML format for downloading. The SDK allows you to search, create, check, and modify documents. In addition, there are functions to remove comments and other "personal data" from documents in Open XML, as well as in Office Open XML, aka OOXML. Microsoft says that this interface can be used with all languages supported by .Net.

May 21, 2008

Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office

Microsoft Corporation is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity suite. With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) scheduled for the first half of 2009, the list of supported formats will grow to include XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A, and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1.

May 8, 2008

Microsoft grows DAISY for blind computer users while Adobe wilts

Microsoft announced the availability of a plug-in that lets users of Word 2007, 2003, and XP easily save documents in DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) XML format.

April 2, 2008

ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard

Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard. ISO/IEC 29500 is a standard for word-processing documents, presentations and spreadsheets that is intended to be implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms. The issues addressed and revised have resulted in sufficient national bodies withdrawing their earlier disapproval votes, or transforming them into positive votes, so that the criteria for approval of the document as an International Standard have now been met.

March 20, 2008

New Case Studies Added Highlighting Benefits of Open XML

Case Studies from EMC Document Sciences (US), Quickoffice (US), IntelliSafe Technologies (US), Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Italy), Ipsos Szonda (Hungary), and FUJISOFT (Japan) were recently added showcasing how these organizations from all over the world have benefitted from using Open XML.

La liberté de choisir le standard de format de document le mieux adapté à une tâche est un élément important pour les entreprises, les administrations et les particuliers. En rejoignant la communauté Open XML, vous faites preuve de votre soutien en faveur de la promotion d'Open XML en tant que standard ISO/CEI.