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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."
A powerless standards body and a handful of european countries plan to appeal something against microsoft. Yeah you make that appeal while every windows box ships with Office 07. If microsoft wanted to play hardball they would halt sales and imports of their software to those countries and see how well they do with a free alternative.
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