Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Nadav Har'El]

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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