Open XML CommunityIn these times of credit difficulties and rising living costs, we at Microsoft want to help our Partners have a Happy Christmas. Especially those who are building customer solutions on the Office platform using Open Office XML!

So we have dug deep and found 10 XBOX 360s to give away, which should cheer the kiddies up no end come Christmas day. All you have to do is register your solution on the 2007 Microsoft Office System Solution Directory -  this takes but a minute and gives your solution free publicity into the bargain.

For details on entering this competition see http://isvfasttrack.co.uk/openxml.aspx

By way of background on Office Open XML, Microsoft have thrown their lot in with ECMAs Office Open XML as a standard for integrating documents with applications and other XML data. We have been working hard to build support for OOXML to be adopted as an ISO standard moving forward.

This should be of keen interest to anyone working with MOSS and the Office 2007 platform. If you need to understand how ratification of the standard may be important for your company, take a look up at http://www.openxmlcommunity.org ,  join the OOXML community and consider adding your opinions to the quotes page.