Microsoft Office Standards Documents
Microsoft supports many standards promulgated by standards bodies in its products today. We rely upon customer advice emerging from our Interoperability Executive Customer Council and our ongoing community and customer engagement efforts to help us prioritize which standards we should support in releases of our high-volume products (See Interoperability Principles). We also participate actively in standards bodies, contributing to the development of new standards and the improvement of existing standards.
When Microsoft supports key standards in a version of a high-volume product, Microsoft will document for the development community how it supports such standards and how it is working towards broad compatibility and interoperability. These steps are intended to facilitate compatibility for customers in real-world scenarios. Microsoft will also document extensions to a key standard in a high-volume product where such extensions are relevant to interoperability with other implementations of that standard.
Audience
This documentation is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available standard specifications, computer language design and implementation art. It assumes that the reader either is familiar with this material or has access to it.
The technical documentation provides the following levels of audience support:
Implementer: Information regarding Microsoft’s implementation certain standards in Microsoft Office 2007 to facilitate interoperability between those implementations and other relevant implementations of a given standard.
Reviewer: A resource for readers who want to evaluate or get greater understanding of how Microsoft is approaching its implementation of these in Microsoft Office 2007.
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[MS-CUSTOMUI]: Custom UI XML Markup specification provides information about how Microsoft Office 2007 implements UI customization in the context of ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats [ECMA-376]. |
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[MS-STANOICAL]: Outlook iCalendar Standards Compliance specifies the level of support provided by the Outlook iCalendar component for the Internet iCalendar Protocol (iCalendar), the iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP), and the iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP). |
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[MS-STANOIMAP]: Outlook IMAP Standards Compliance specifies the level of support provided by the Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4 (IMAP4) for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. |
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[MS-STANOPOP3]: Outlook POP3 Standards Compliance specifies the level of support provided by Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 for the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), as specified in [RFC1939]. |
Questions
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