An esoteric but key U.S. technical standards committee decided last week not to endorse Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document specification, increasing the odds that the U.S. will vote against ...
An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office file ...
REDMOND, Wash. — June 1, 2005 — 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.
Company's Open Specification Promise (OSP), designed to prevent patent problems for third parties, provides "no assurances" to GPL developers, says Software Freedom Law Center. Martin LaMonica is a ...
The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim Thatcher ...
Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday urged a Massachusetts state official to rethink an opinion that Microsoft Corp.’s Open XML (Extensible Markup Language) meets the state’s parameters for an acceptable open ...