[Bradford] The UK Government Open Standards Survey

[Alan D Barnard]

I am amazed, I thought that Microsoft did not open up its formats until 
Office 2003 XML (I suppose that we may as well say R.I.P. to that one 
while we are at it).

A direct download is available:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/0/1/501ED102-E53F-4CE0-AA6B-B0F93629DDC6/Word97-2007BinaryFileFormat(doc)Specification.pdf

I still think that anything before Word97 is doubtful.

On 24/04/11 21:09, richard wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 19:35 +0100, Alan D Barnard wrote:
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UKGovOpenStandards
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>> 7) Word (.doc)
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>> Not a 'standard' by any definition.
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>> It is the file extension for a
>> series of Microsoft word-processors. The actual format is not publicly
>> documented by Microsoft and there is good reason to believe that some
>> versions are not fully documented at all. The only formal definition of
>> the format is that it is that produced by a particular version of
>> Microsoft Word. Files are not even uniformly interchangeable between
>> different versions of the software.
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> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2252446/Word-972007-Binary-File-Format-Doc-Specification
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>> This format is no longer the default for either the current version of
>> Word or for the previous one.
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>> R.I.P. except for the fact that it has been extensively
>> reverse-engineered and has served to facilitate document transfer
>> between different word-processors including between old and new versions
>> of Microsoft Word.
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