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Microsoft's cloud Office lands one million users
News Workspace is the web-based extension of Microsoft Office, allowing users to access and share documents online. The free tool lets users store, work on and collaborate to 1,000... [04 Sep 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... [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... [21 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings of how to read and create Microsoft Office documents. European antitrust regulators are investigating whether... [04 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... [22 Feb 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... [29 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as recruitment letters. When recipients attempt to... [26 Sep 2007]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News One recent threat that affected some Apple users, called "Badbunny", was a worm that threatened OpenOffice documents. The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X customers being "owned" by... [12 Jul 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... [04 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... [21 May 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News A Microsoft-sponsored open source project is expected to today release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard... [02 Feb 2007]
Office 2008 for Mac: It's coming this year
News On the file format front, Microsoft said this spring it plans to have ready a beta test version of converters, allowing people with the current Office for Mac to read and write... [11 Jan 2007]
Redmond patches Windows, Office flaws
News The vulnerability lies in a Windows component called 'vgx.dll' that is meant to support Vector Markup Language (VML) documents in the operating system. Like the first VML hole, this vulnerability can be exploited by... [10 Jan 2007]
CIO Jury: Businesses cool on Office 2007 upgrade
News The new Office will feature XML-based file formats and a completely new user interface, while the enterprise versions will feature the Groove collaboration application developed by... [17 Nov 2006]
Word to get 'save as OpenDocument' add-on
News By the end of the year, the open source project building the converters will move past simply opening documents and add the ability to save documents created in Word in the ODF format, said Brian Jones,... [16 Oct 2006]
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