Microsoft 'Office 12' XML File Formats to Give Customers Improved Data Interoperability and Dramatically Smaller File Sizes

Customers and partners will learn new details about the new file formats
at Tech*Ed 2005 next week in Orlando. Initially serving as observers , Conformative plans to expand its
contributions on the following OASIS technical committees.
"Microsoft Word is one of the world's most popular applications used
to create documents for print and electronic distribution, and we are
proud to address the needs of its users.

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About the Microsoft Office System
The Microsoft Office System is an easy way to help more people use
information to positively impact their business. 16, 2004
(2) "XML and PDF-A Will Reign as Future Document Archive Formats,"
Forrester Research, March 2005

NOTE: Microsoft , Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath, SharePoint, FrontPage,
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trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Authors can use Microsoft Word
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Documents created with the current binary file formats in Office also will
be fully compatible with "Office 12" applications. This compatibility will also help
ensure that third-party solutions based on current versions of Microsoft
Office continue to function properly.
Knox, Dec. The new
desktop ePublishing software sets an innovative standard by leveraging
the power of XML and allowing users to quickly and easily create
customized content for the Web, intranets, professional online Help
systems, portable devices, enterprise-ready XML, or PDFs.NET, and Web-based applications. Full support
is planned for Microsoft's Longhorn Help once it becomes available.

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WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word ships in June 2005, and is
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information about Quadralay Corporation or WebWorks products and
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Through a system of familiar
and easy-to-use programs, servers, services and solutions, users can connect
people and organizations to information, business processes and each other -
helping ensure that they derive the most value out of information.
"We intend to actively participate in this respected organization as
it creates standards that directly impact our customers and their
businesses. Only
Conformative is approaching the problem of XML processing performance
through the application of a parallel processing architecture .com. Instead of copying and pasting content into
a proprietary editor, or managing multiple document versions, authors
can design and deliver complete Help systems with their content
remaining solely in Microsoft Word.

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In the months leading up to the release
of "Office 12," Microsoft will provide further technical information about the
Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, including draft versions of the schemas, to
help ensure that developers and IT professionals can be prepared to take
advantage of the formats before product shipment.
People interested in the new file formats and the next version of Office
can get additional information at a preview site,
http://www.

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Microsoft Office System consists of the 2003 editions of Microsoft Office,
Microsoft Office SharePoint(R) Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office Project
and Project Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office Live
Communications Server 2003, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office
FrontPage (R) 2003, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, Microsoft Office OneNote(R)
2003, Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and Microsoft Office Visio(R) 2003.
By becoming involved in OASIS technical committees, Conformative
representatives will work with other enterprise IT thought leaders to
enable the more efficient use of XML data processing, web services and
SOAs. Fabry, CEO of Quadralay Corporation.

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(1) Gartner Research, "Use XML to Structure and Manage Content," R.

"Their insight and expertise will further enhance each committee's
efforts to create effective standards in these vital areas."
Conformative is also participating in the OASIS Symposium on the
Future of XML Vocabularies in New Orleans this week. WebWorks ePublisher Pro for FrameMaker features many new
innovations, including a user-friendly interface and XML-based
processing for improved performance .

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(Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that it is adopting industry-standard
Extensible which account for the vast majority of
Microsoft Office users -- will be able to open, edit and save files using the
new formats, thanks to a free update available as a download from Microsoft
that enables those older Office versions to work with the new formats. Headquartered in
Austin, Texas, Conformative Systems was founded in 2003 and is backed
by Austin Ventures and Charles River Ventures. Most ePublisher Pro output formats fully support
accessibility, with automatic code validation. Quadralay Corporation also completely re-engineered its
previous single-source online publishing solution for Adobe
FrameMaker .

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OASIS DCML (Data Center Markup Language) Adoption, which is
working to promote the adoption of OASIS DCML standards in the
data center to help organizations realize the promise of
utility computing

OASIS DCML Applications and Services, which is defining
extensions to represent and manage applications and services
in a data center

OASIS SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) Reference Model,
developing a core reference model to guide and foster the
creation of specific service-oriented architectures

OASIS XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation)
Conformance, developing the processes, tools and methods to
integrate disparate XSLT/Xpath test-set contributions into a
comprehensive conformance test suite

"We're pleased to have Conformative join these OASIS technical
committees ," said Carol Geyer, OASIS director of communications. It's easier to control and faster, so it saves
time and money," says Michael E.

About Quadralay Corporation

Quadralay Corporation is the leading provider of online
publishing, Help system delivery, and content-review capabilities for
Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker users.

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The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the
trademarks of their respective owners., a developer of high-performance computer systems, has
joined four key technical committees of the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a
not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The Symposium
brings standards developers and users together to explore options for
solving issues of interoperability that are increasingly affecting the
global exchange of business information.

About Conformative Systems

Conformative Systems is a developer of high-performance computer
systems that dramatically increase application performance while
reducing cost and complexity in the enterprise data center .
WebWorks ePublisher Pro opens new doors by providing greater
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WebWorks ePublisher Pro for FrameMaker ships in July 2005, and is
available for purchase by authors for US$1,395, and internationally
for US$1,515.

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in the United States and/or other countries.

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OASIS Symposium on the Future of XML Vocabularies

AUSTIN, Texas----Conformative
Systems, Inc. For more information, please visit www.
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Quadralay Launches WebWorks ePublisher Pro; New Product Leverages the Power of XML to Simplify Online Content Delivery from Leading Desktop Authoring Tools

ePublisher Pro provides a dynamic
preview window for designing the look and feel of each Help system, as
well as an intuitive graphical interface for developing commonly
required advanced features. Authors can open RoboHelp
projects and easily create new Microsoft Word documents for future
content sources.

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Currently supported Help formats include HTML Help, WebWorks Help,
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REDMOND, Wash., In a move to bring new
levels of data interoperability to its customers and new market opportunities
to technology providers throughout the industry, Microsoft Corp.

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services
and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.OASIS produces worldwide standards for
security, Web services, conformance, business transactions, supply
chain, public sector, and interoperability within and between
marketplaces.

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AUSTIN, Texas----Quadralay
Corporation, the leading provider of complete electronic publishing
solutions, today announced the launch of WebWorks(R) ePublisher Pro,
its next-generation solution for creating online content. WebWorks
ePublisher Pro produces online content that is compliant with Section
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"OASIS is the consortium that's driving the majority of Web
services standards as well as standards in e-business and
application-specific markets," said John Derrick, CEO of Conformative. The
company 's unique server design incorporates many processors in a
single application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), enabling
acceleration of enterprise applications and Web services by up to 200
times compared to existing general-purpose servers.conformative.com

"Now with WebWorks ePublisher Pro , authors can create customized
online-viewable content directly from Microsoft Word or Adobe
FrameMaker documents.com

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So workers can save
documents to their current formats and exchange those documents with people
using "Office 12" -- and when they upgrade to "Office 12," they can continue
to use their existing binary documents.conformative."

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Conformative Systems Joins Four OASIS Technical Committees; Thought Leaders Collaborate to Develop and Promote XML Web Services and SOA Standards

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com/office/preview, beginning Monday, June 6, to coincide
with the start of Tech*Ed. For more information,
visit www.

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Developers and IT professionals attending Tech*Ed conference next week will
get first view of new way to develop integrated Office-based solutions.
Enabling technologies , such as Microsoft Windows(R) SharePoint Services and
Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003, enhance the features and functionality of
products in the Microsoft Office System. In addition, the new software features
simple WYSIWYG controls and push-button processing that give authors
full control of the look and feel of Help content and other online
information.
ePublisher Pro includes a versatile Microsoft Word plug-in called
WebWorks Transit, which adds markers and conditional-text
functionality directly to the Microsoft Word environment.
Translated content can be easily reproduced in any output for most
European languages, as well as Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese,
and Traditional Chinese.