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Meridio customers often require open formats for the storage of their records, to ensure that the content can be re-used and supported over the long term. They would prefer these open formats to be extremely well integrated with the rest of their Microsoft investments - specifically their Office applications. We are pleased that Microsoft has gone down this open standard route, and would see this as being very positive for the industry and for customers.

Alan Gilmore
CTO
Meridio

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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.

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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.

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March 20, 2008

Finally! INCITS Finalizes U.S. 'Yes' Vote on Open XML Standards Bid

After several rounds of voting and internal debate, the committee that represents U.S. interests on technology issues within the ISO standards body reaffirmed on Tuesday its support for approving Microsoft Corp's Office Open XML document format as an open standard, according to sources close to the process.

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March 18, 2008

I.R.I.S. Announces Cooperation with Microsoft

Belgium-based company I.R.I.S. Group published a press release today announcing cooperation with Microsoft that will result in Open XML being supported as an input and output format in the I.R.I.S. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and document compression server.

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March 16, 2008

An Open Letter from Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Office

Chris Capossela, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Microsoft Office, published an open letter offering his perspective on the rationale behind standardization for Open XML.

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