document file format in news
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Matusow wrote in a blog post: "This is not about any one document format 'winning' - it is about enabling customers to evaluate and use document formats that make the most sense for... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely to bother to keep conforming with the OOXML standard as it develops within ISO, but Brown is more optimistic: "Given Microsoft's proven... [21 Apr 2008]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. The South African government is to adopt Open Document Format... [29 Oct 2007]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards, said: "We support the Commonwealth's proposal to add Ecma Office Open XML File Formats to the list of approved standards, as this would give... [03 Jul 2007]
Microsoft to expand document formats
News The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML - a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft Office - and a Chinese national standard called... [21 May 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News The Microsoft format is called Office Open XML (OOXML), which is the default document format in the company's recently released Office 2007 suite. The delivery of the first... [02 Feb 2007]
Redmond has 'road to Damascus' open source conversion
News A handful of document format converters are already under development, including an Office plug-in from the OpenDocument Foundation, which is expected to be tested by Massachusetts. Microsoft said it... [06 Jul 2006]
EC dithers over OpenDocument approval
News The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the format has been endorsed by international standards groups. Last Tuesday, members of the... [08 May 2006]
Massachusetts ditches Microsoft for open source
News OpenDocument, short for the Oasis Open Document Format for Office Applications, is an open document file format for saving office documents such as... [02 Sep 2005]
FBI invites bids for Sentinel project
News Mueller said in February: "What the agent on the street does not have is a user-friendly format for inputting investigative and intelligence information into his or her computer. The bureau on Tuesday announced it had... [11 Aug 2005]
Apple snaps up software format translator
News SchemaSoft's tools are capable of extracting data found in a variety of formats including those used by Microsoft Office documents, Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format as well as those used by Quark... [23 Mar 2005]
Java founder questions Sun-Microsoft link
News DRM has been put into places you wouldn't think would make a whole lot of sense, like the document format being wrapped in DRM stuff… under the sheets the major justification is to make... [04 Feb 2005]
Microsoft opens up Office for governments
News They're going to be able to see how we do the whole file format". Besides security, specific concerns surrounding Office include better understanding of its file formats to allow... [20 Sep 2004]
Microsoft admits Word not hacker-proof
News I doubt there is much they can do about it, because they have to be backwards-compatible with their file format, which keeps changing," he said. A set of relatively simple instructions on how to bypass... [08 Jan 2004]
Office 2003 may pose antivirus problem
News The latest test version of Microsoft Office 2003 could cause problems for antivirus companies because the XML-based format it supports will bog down scanning software, according to security experts. So while a more open... [24 Mar 2003]
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