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RSS file save in newsMicrosoft and NHS team up on software design
News The idea is that there would be an open standard that would allow all kinds of information - medical device data, prescription information and other patient records - to be maintained in one electronic file. [10 Sep 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 A Microsoft-sponsored open source project is expected to today release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. The same group of Microsoft partners... [02 Feb 2007]
Five reasons to love (and hate) Windows Vista
News You can search for all documents authored by John Doe, then save the search as a virtual file folder for later reference without having to physically relocate or make copies of all those files Microsoft... [30 Nov 2006]
iPhone to "muddle the handset market"
News Nick Lane, principal analyst at Informa, said the iPod has educated the user about digital music-file storage and has played a pivotal role in creating the 'sideloading' phenomenon that allows users to transfer music to... [21 Nov 2006]
Digital newspapers by 2008
News The technology behind the so-called 'e-papers' could also be used for paperless printing, where you simply download a file onto a flexible screen instead of printing it out onto a piece of paper. Hauser added paperless... [10 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... [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, developed by a France-based Microsoft partner, will... [06 Jul 2006]
Digital library to save web content forever
News He said: "If we supply you with a book you can see if someone has torn out a page or if someone has tried to insert something but you can't do that with an electronic file so we are trying to guarantee you can do that. [08 Jun 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. Adobe wants the... [05 Jun 2006]
Microsoft to issue patched patch
News Other issues include applications that crash after trying to open a file, no response after typing an address into Internet Explorer's address bar, and no effect after right-clicking on a file and... [24 Apr 2006]
Windows fix in patch of bother
News Other issues include applications that crash after trying to open a file; no response after typing an address into Internet Explorer's address bar; and no effect after right-clicking on a file and... [18 Apr 2006]
Police IT boss: Why we swapped Linux for Microsoft
News David Stirling, head of ICT at Central Scotland Police, told silicon.com that since 1999 the force has run Linux domain servers, which also acted as local file servers in that domain or station. Microsoft said that as a... [18 Aug 2005]
Mozilla says Thunderbird podcasting is on its way
News The technique utilises the RSS file format that allows simple forms of content such as blogs to be repetitively syndicated across the internet and has enabled many people to reach a global audience with self-published... [03 Jun 2005]
Microsoft XML patent sparks outrage
News Should someone else want to save a programming object in the form of an XML file, Microsoft can now charge them for the privilege or simply refuse them permission to do it at all in the US. The patent,... [27 May 2005]
