Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK

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."

Comments

Re:Paper vs de facto

[blind biker]

Because anyone who follows Microsoft knows the game is to never have the two match. So true. And one would think this is known by everyone, especially in the OSS community. Oh, but did you know that .NET is the future of Gnome?

Re:MO2K7OXML, not Open XML

[Anonymous Coward]

We promise that this year will be the year of Linux on the desktop. We promise that version 1.0 will be released soon. We promise that Linux gives you more choices (assuming all those choices are Linux). We promise our project will have an innovative graphical user interface (if you're a programmer and use the command line). We promise our open source software is cheaper (unless you want support). We promise our project provides all the features of our commercial competitor.

Surprisingly, the coin has two sides.