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Microsoft Office Binary Documentation and Translator Project Site Are Now Live

Time: 13:41 EST/18:41 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner

As promised last month, the binary documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) is now live. In addition to this, the project to create an open source translator (binary -> Open XML) has now been formed on sourceforge, and the development roadmap has been published.

Another great surprise in all of this is that we've made the documentation for a few other supporting technologies available as it may be of use to folks implementing the binary formats:

The technologies included are:

Windows Compound Binary File Format Specification

Windows Metafile Format (.wmf) Specification

Ink Serialized Format (ISF) Specification

These technologies are also all available under the Open Specification Promise.