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 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.
 
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