Happy New Year to all of you! How did New Year’s eve go? I hope you’re all fine, well rested and done with that hangover of yesterday… As for me it wasn’t the case and it comes as a surprize: I went to bed at four in the morning, partied nicely but only drank a pint of beer and a shot of vodka.

Our friends at Redmond, WA, however, didn’t sleep much. In  fact I’m wondering if they ever celebrated the new year at all. At first they coined the subtle notion of conditional removal of deprecated parts inside OOXML. Look here: “The intent is to enable the future DIS 29500 maintenance group to choose, at a later date, to remove this set of features from a revised version of DIS 29500.”

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