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Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK

Posted by Soulskill on from the appeals-what-appeals dept.

Kurtz'sKompund tips us to news that Microsoft has released a finished version of the Open XML software development kit. Microsoft has made additional resources available with the download. Quoting Techworld: "The SDK includes an application programming interface (API) simplifying the creation of code for searching documents, creating documents, validating document parts, modifying data and other tasks, Microsoft said. The API can be used in any language supported by the Microsoft .Net Framework, the company said. The current SDK supports the version of Open XML supported by Office 2007, which is not the same as that ratified as a standard by the ISO, due to changes effected during the ratification process."

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It's a trap!"

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    1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by that_itch_kid · · Score: 2, Funny

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    2. Re:Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      What are you talking about? Microsoft is an excellent software company, much better than those open-source hags. I mean really, you don't even know the qualifications of the guys working on open-source software. I just feel assured that most of the people on Slashdot would not be qualified to work for Microsoft. That says a lot to me, and I'm certain it says a lot to corporate America and all the Microsoft desktop users in the world.

  2. Re:An API is useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That does explain why Microsoft Office has virtually no marketshare, and how VBA with Office is not of the most widely used programming languages.

    Yes, your goals are noble, but your claims are invalidated by reality.

  3. Re:continue the charade, but we dont buy it. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody but the people you pay to think otherwise is fooled. Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software (or Standards) Only Fools Teenagers.

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  4. Re:MO2K7OXML, not Open XML by Anpheus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uhm, this API does the processing for you, so you'd have to do all that work anyway.

    Very little in the way of wasted effort. What this needs is a promise that Office 2007 and this API will be synced to the ISO specification.

  5. API can be used in any language... by Vexorian · · Score: 5, Funny

    API can be used in any language supported by the Microsoft .Net Framework
    In other words, the API barely works in .net only. A document format specification that is so hard to support that you need a platform dependent API in order to use, sounds about MSish enough.
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  6. I didn't know XML was closed... by deanston · · Score: 5, Funny

    MSFT's next initiative: Source Open Software (SOS), to source all software technology from open source. By ISO submission time the word 'Source' will be dropped and it will simply be known as the Open Software Standard, at which time all lawsuit against MS shall be dismissed due to the fact that the 'OS' in Windows product line will no longer stand for 'operating system'... Hey Microsoft, pay me for the idea! I patented it...

  7. Re:Please don't call it Open XML by Dr_Barnowl · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer MOOXML.

    Not only does it reinforce the concept that this is a product of Microsoft, it has amusing cow connotations.