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Microsoft Says It Will Release Binary Office Formats - Which? -- Updated

By Pamela Jones et al.

There's nothing like an EU Commission investigation to get Microsoft to open up a little, is there?

Today Brian Jones has two announcements, that Microsoft is making binary Office formats (.doc; .xls; .ppt) available under the Open Specification license Promise. ¹ You won't have to email them and be evaluated any more. From what I've heard, the way it worked was that only companies and governments could get them before. Of course Jones tells it a different way, as I'll show you. The second announcement is about yet another translator project, an open source "Binary Format-to-ISO/IEC JTC 1 DIS 29500 Translator Project".

Full post as published by Groklaw on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).