Data Portability
The Data Portability section provides detailed Open Specifications technical documents for certain file formats created by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and by SQL Server. Additionally, the documentation describes how user-created data in SQL Server can be extracted for use in other software products.
Although the Open Specifications technical documents are freely available, many of them include patented inventions. Some of these patents are available at no charge under the Open Specifications Promise or the Microsoft Community Promise. The remaining patents are available through various licensing programs. For more information, please visit the Microsoft Open Specifications Dev Center website or send an email message to the IP Licensing Team.
Q&A and Blogs
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Exchange Server Open Specifications and Standards Support - Microsoft Q&A Home to technical questions and answers about Exchange Server Open Specifications and Standards Support documents. |
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Office Open Specifications, Standards Support, and File Formats - Microsoft Q&A Home to technical questions and answers about Office Open Specifications, Standards Support, and File Format documents. |
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SharePoint Server Open Specifications - Microsoft Q&A Home to technical questions and answers about SharePoint Server Open Specifications documents. |
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SQL Server Open Specifications, Standards Support and Data Portability - Microsoft Q&A Home to technical questions and answers about SQL Server Open Specifications, Standards Support and Data Portability documents. |
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Windows Open Specifications and Standards Support - Microsoft Q&A Home to technical questions and answers about Windows Open Specifications and Standards Support documents. |
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These blogs, authored by the engineers who support the Open Specifications documents, provide a different venue for further discussion of those documents. |
