Microsoft Announces Availability of Open and Royalty-Free License For Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas

I was in Copenhagen last week at IT Forum. I was co-presenting sessions on Microsoft and Shared Source, in which we looked at how MS viewed Open Source, Linux, and all that. One issue that was raised was over file formats - one thing that seemed to be wanted by customers was an open XML schema for Office documents.

As it turns out, MS also formally used Copenhagen and IT forum to announce the availability of Open and Royalty-Free License For Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas.

This is a good step forward!