Microsoft has won approval for its Offfice Open XML document format from international standards body ECMA International. Microsoft has won approval for its Office Open XML document format from ...

Microsoft said Thursday that XML would be the default file format for three applications when it ships Office 12 late next year. The company said its new Microsoft Office Open XML Formats would be ...

Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft Corp. as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt ...

The Office Open XML (OOXML) file format may not have gotten ISO’s final blessing as an open standard yet, but Microsoft Corp. is finalizing plans to release a software development kit for it anyway.

"Novell is cooperating with Microsoft and others on a project to create bidirectional, open-source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft ...

Format this! It’s IT Blogwatch, in which Novell irritates open source fans by supporting Microsoft’s Open XML format. Not to mention some amazing flame fractals… Elizabeth Montalbano reports from ...

In context: OpenDocument is an ISO standardized format for saving word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics using ZIP compression and XML metadata. ODF is the native file ...