Re: Microsoft Specs

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:05:22AM -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
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> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:12 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > As promised, the Microsoft Office binary format specs are out:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx
> >
> > How does that concern us? It is supposed to be the last up to date spec
> > for the binary file formats (think Word), no strings attached[1].
>
> And
> http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/supportingtechnologies.mspx
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> This one has an updated WMF specification and OLE2 Compound Storage.
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> If you get a 404, just reload. Windows Server is not perfect ;-)

What's surprising is that it's almost 6 times smaller than OOXML and
easier to read and understand. Who'd guess...

Rui

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