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Microsoft Office System Webcast: Compatibility Tips for Office 2008 for Mac and the 2007 Office Release for Windows (Level 200)
White Paper If one also use Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac or collaborate with others who do, he or she may be happy to learn that both versions use the new Open XML file formats and share much of the same functionality. [09 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Compatibility Tips for the 2007 Office System File Formats: Collaborating With Users of Earlier Versions (Level 300)
White Paper The focus of this webcast is on the differences in behavior when sharing Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 documents (the Office Open XML Formats) versus saving the documents in the previous file formats (Compatibility... [30 May 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News In its ongoing antitrust investigation concerning interoperability with Microsoft, the Commission will investigate whether the announced support of ODF in Office leads to better interoperability and allows consumers to process and exchange their... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by a document standards... [21 Apr 2008]
Introducing Microsoft Office Word 2003
White Paper Word 2003 also supports Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a file format and serves as a fully functional XML editor. Microsoft Office Word 2003 is the word processing program that makes documents easier to create, share, and read. [16 Apr 2008]
Japanese Firm Combines Open XML Formats With Reader Technology, Removes Barriers to IT Usage
White Paper By maximizing the application independence aspect of Open XML Formats, Skyfish has created a product whose goal is accessible reader technology: the shared use of documents and their technical base. Skyfish, Inc.focusing on a voice-based user... [14 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment The most obvious one is that a perfectly good ISO standard for storing office type documents in XML format already exists in ODF (OpenDocument Format). OOXML is thus a natural vehicle for organisations to look to as they drive more towards XML... [04 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised. OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings... [04 Apr 2008]
The Microsoft Office Open XML Format
White Paper Microsoft "Office 12" will introduce new default XML file formats for Microsoft Office Word word processing, Excel spreadsheet, and PowerPoint presentation graphics programs, and will change the way developers can approach solutions based on... [03 Apr 2008]
Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad
News At the same time though, it has again pushed back the release of converters needed by users of Office 2004 to read documents saved in the new XML file formats used by Office 2007 for Windows. By further delaying the converters as more documents are... [22 Feb 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Compatibility Tips for the 2007 Office System File Formats - Collaborating With Users of Earlier Versions (Level 300)
White Paper This webcast focuses on the differences in behavior when user share Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 documents (the Office Open XML Formats) versus saving documents in the previous file formats (Compatibility Mode). [14 Jan 2008]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. It is an international standard recognised by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), and a rival to Microsoft's Office Open... [29 Oct 2007]
XML Hacks: Unravel the OpenOffice File Format
White Paper Each file is saved as a collection of XML documents and stored in a ZIP archive. The specification of the OpenOffice XML file format is being maintained by an OASIS technical committee (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php? [10 Oct 2007]
National Archive tackles 'digital dark age'
News Microsoft has already shown commitment to this with the Open XML file format - used on its latest software - which allows data in documents to be unlocked to be archived and restructured in new ways. Using the technology, the National Archive will... [04 Jul 2007]
Microsoft to expand document formats
News The converters, to be available on open source project hosting site SourceForge.net, let people open and save documents in either the Ecma Open XML formats or ODF. The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to... [21 May 2007]
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