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RSS file open xmlEC dithers over OpenDocument approval
News But a month after Held made this statement, Microsoft announced it was submitting its Office Open XML file formats to the European standards body ECMA International as a prelude to seeking ISO standardisation. [08 May 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's new allies
Comment The coming version will use XML, and there have been attempts to persuade the ignorant that this is, in itself, a standardisation of the file formats. Clearly of some value, such standards are not enough to make file formats open. [15 Nov 2005]
Microsoft embraces PDF for Office 12
News But Microsoft still has no plans to support OpenDocument, the Oasis standard file format for productivity applications, within Office 12. Microsoft is also introducing its own XML Paper Specification (XPS), he said, "which is in the same solution... [03 Oct 2005]
Microsoft XML patent sparks outrage
News The patent, which was granted by the US patent office on Tuesday, is for XML serialisation and deserialisation - the conversion of a programming object into an XML file and vice versa. It's an abomination to anyone who does programming that the... [27 May 2005]
Moving Nodes to Another MVS Image Within a Sysplex
White Paper But once you've got an XML file open in an editor, the act of changing the necessary fields is pretty straight-forward. The configuration XML files for that node will have references within them to the MVS system and the TCP Host Name of the MVS... [08 Mar 2005]
Microsoft opens up Office for governments
News Besides security, specific concerns surrounding Office include better understanding of its file formats to allow interoperability with other document applications. They're going to be able to see how we do the whole file format". [20 Sep 2004]
An Introduction to RSS News Feeds Using Open Formats for Content Syndication
White Paper This paper includes sample code that demonstrates elements of an RSS file, plus a Perl example using the module XML::RSS. RDF Site Summary (RSS) is catching on as one of the most widely used XML formats on the Web. [27 Aug 2004]
Advantages of the OpenOffice.org XML File Format Used by the StarOffice Office Suite
White Paper This white paper looks at the benefits and business aspects of an extensible Markup Language (XML) file format. As a result, both the StarOffice and OpenOffice.org office suites use exactly the same file format. [20 Aug 2004]
First 'critical' patch issued for Office 2003
News An attempt to re-open the file with the Office 2003 application that created it could result in a corrupted document, missing content or other errors. If the document contains graphics elements created using the OfficeArt tool, the earlier version... [06 Nov 2003]
Gates gives first look at Longhorn
News Longhorn is built around three major advances - a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon, a new communications architecture known as Indigo, and a new file system known as WinFS that borrows from Microsoft's relational database... [28 Oct 2003]
Web services - challenges for users
Comment Colm Bermingham, project manager at Ireland's tax gathering body the Irish Revenue Commissioners, paints a picture of that central body having to fall in line with the expectation of those they work with - in its case tax payers and the... [19 Jun 2003]
Office 2003 may pose antivirus problem
News When saved as an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file, the macros can more or less end up anywhere. This means that scanners must search the entire contents of a file, rather than examine the part of the file where macros are always positioned. [24 Mar 2003]
Corel details next version of WordPerfect
News The integration also gives people greater file-sharing options and supports sending data across multiple computing devices, the company said. Corel said it has redone Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) integration in WordPerfect Office 11 to allow... [06 Mar 2003]
New Office beta to launch next week
News This could help many businesses free up valuable content locked in Office file formats. The new beta could answer whether Microsoft continues on its path of using proprietary XML dialects, or schemas, or takes a more open approach that would better... [05 Mar 2003]
Microsoft takes a risk with Office revamp
News The company is adopting Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a second file format in all Office applications, to enable better data exchange between the productivity suite and back-end software, such as databases. [22 Oct 2002]
