file open xml in news
Google open sources data-moving tool
News The binary files produced by Protocol Buffers are three to 10 times smaller than a comparable XML file, Google said. Google uses thousands of data formats for networked messages, and XML is simply too cumbersome to use as an encoding method for it... [11 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News While developing our support for ODF requires a substantial amount of work, changes to existing file formats are often more complex than developing new code and therefore more difficult to implement due to backwards compatibility considerations. [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 ability to... [21 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. The European Commission said in January it was exploring whether the... [04 Apr 2008]
Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad
News As a result we are pushing back the release of the final Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac. At the same time though, it has again pushed back the release of converters needed by users of Office 2004 to read documents... [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 for Standardization), and a rival to Microsoft's Office Open... [29 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]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News Office Open XML, also referred to as Ecma-376, are the XML-based file formats in Office 2007 that Microsoft standardised at Ecma International late last year. Since then, however, Microsoft has submitted its Open XML file formats to Ecma, where... [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 Unified Office Format (UOF). [21 May 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News The same group of Microsoft partners will now start work on code to translate file formats between Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation software and the corresponding ODF files, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of... [02 Feb 2007]
Windows worm holes plugged
News The remaining five would require people to visit a malicious website or open a malicious file for an attack to succeed, according to Microsoft's alerts. The Workstation Service routes file system and print requests, both local and on a network. [15 Nov 2006]
Word to get 'save as OpenDocument' add-on
News Next year, the Open XML Translator project, done primarily by developers at French company Clever Age, intends to create converters that can translate between Microsoft's Excel and PowerPoint and the corresponding ODF file formats, Jones added. [16 Oct 2006]
Redmond has 'road to Damascus' open source conversion
News The conversions will be based on Microsoft's Open Office XML, the XML-based file formats that will be the default setting in Office 2007, due next year. The software giant on Thursday is expected to launch the Open XML Translator project on... [06 Jul 2006]
Microsoft clashes with Adobe over PDF support
News Adobe has threatened to file an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission if the software giant includes the PDF 'save as' feature in Office 2007, Heiner added. In the past, Adobe has raised objections to Microsoft's plans... [05 Jun 2006]
EC 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]
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