On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to
shift to non-propriety documents formats":
> > Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx
> > formats are documented, even the older binary formats.
>
> Care to point us where it is?
>
> PS: if this "documentation" is encapsulated in something that
> can only be read after signing some NDA and/or other legal
> MS stuff -- don't bother, such documentation is equivalent
> to internal MS documentation -- I.e: it is not usefull to
> anyone else.
Dotan gave the links earlier today:
> Here are the pre-2007 formats:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381461.aspx
>
> And here are the current versions:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118.aspx
Amazingly, not only do you not have to sign any NDA, the documents (at
least those I looked at) say that your are free to copy and
redistiribute them. Perhaps even more amazingly, they are in PDF format,
not any of Microsoft's own format.
Very nice (though I still prefer OpenOffice ;-)).
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