Press Release

January 15th, 2010

KI Systems unaffected by the Microsoft January Office update. 

Microsoft has released an update to Office.  The update is in response to a court decision involving custom XML tagging in Word. 

From Microsoft - "Generally, customers who purchase or license Word 2007 or Word 2003 from Microsoft after January 10, 2010 for use in the United States and its territories will need to use updated software that does not include a particular custom XML tagging implementation.  Versions of Office Word 2007 that are distributed by Microsoft after January 10, 2010 will no longer read the custom XML markup that may be contained within .docx, .docm, or .xml files. The new versions of Office Word 2007 can still open these files, but any custom XML markup is removed. Custom XML markup in Word documents is visible in the Office Word user interface as pink (the default color) tag names surrounding text in a document.

If you apply this update to versions of Office Word that were distributed by Microsoft before January 11, 2010, the updated version will treat custom XML markup in the same way as versions of Office Word 2007 that are distributed by Microsoft after January 10, 2010. Office Word content controls are not affected by this update. Content controls are a common method of structuring document content and mapping content to the XML data that is stored in a document.  Custom XML markup that is stored within Word 97-2003 document (*.doc) files is not affected by this update.  Ribbon XML and Ribbon Extensibility are not affected by this update."

For more details about the update, read here and here.

Friday, January 15th, 2010