Talking with Scoble about the XML formats on Channel9

Robert Scoble swung by last week and we talked a bit about these new formats (very cool guy). He recorded the interview and it's posted up here on Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=73329

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 01, 2005
  Awesome video - this technology looks very cool... can't wait till the beta :-)
• Anonymous
  June 01, 2005
  Wow, it sure looks like you guys have been working hard. This stuff is awesome. The possibilites seem huge and I've only just seen the video and I'm sure theres loads more.
  
  I love the idea / application of backward compatability with previous versions and I love the relationship interaction involved in bringing in other resources like images and embedded objects.
  
  I'm sure there a lot of developers who are going to love getting their greasy little paws on this stuff, me included.
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  Congrats on your announcement.
  I'm subscribed to your blog. Thanks for starting one.
  
  I was just curious if there was any plans to XMLize the Visio file format.
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  Alan - Visio has have the ability to save as XML for a couple versions now. If you select the file type dropdown from the save as dialog you'll see they have XML equivalents for their different file types.
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  I posted about visio on your previous post as well, but while Visio has had XML-ability for some time, it's kind of along the lines of the WordML. When are you going to do for that format what you've done for the other Office Apps?
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  Brian,
  
  You mentioned on the video about the patches being shipped for Office 2000+. Will these be standard converter DLLs? If so, wouldn't these also work with 97 and non-Microsoft applications? Or are these updates hard coded into Office?
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  malx - The updates that I refer to for O2000+ are not just standard converters. We are updating the applications themselves to support the 2way functionality (being able to both read and write the files). That was already possible with converters in Word, but not in Excel and PowerPoint. We want these file types to behave just like the other native file formats for the applications.
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
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• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  For more information on access to the schemas:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/06/01/424085.aspx#424432
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  Awesome stuff Brian!
  
  I wrote a blog post about it which sums up my thoughts:
  
  <a http://www.misterorange.com/2005/06/office-12-impressions.html
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  Hi Brian, any idea on how soon the format updates for previous versions of Office will arrive? I mean would the updates get here before or after Office 12?
• Anonymous
  June 03, 2005
  Senke - There isn't a time yet on when the updates will be available, but they most likely wouldn't be available before Office 12 ships. The schemas will still be shifting as we finalize the products, so we would need to account for that in the updates as well.
  There will be beta versions of them available earlier, so you'd at least get a chance to work with them and see the output. I don't have a date on when the betas will be available though.
  
  -Brian