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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]

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]

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 plug-in will work with Microsoft's Word application, including the latest Office 2007 version as well the Office 2003 and Office XP editions, Microsoft said. Novell last year said it will use the Word translator to allow users of OpenOffice... [02 Feb 2007]

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, a Microsoft Office program manager. [16 Oct 2006]

Redmond has 'road to Damascus' open source conversion

News The goal is to have a Word plug-in for Office 2007 by the end of this year and translators for Excel and PowerPoint next year, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of interoperability and XML architecture at Microsoft. [06 Jul 2006]

Microsoft opens up Office for governments

News But most documents are still created in proprietary Microsoft formats such as the .doc extension used by Word. Besides security, specific concerns surrounding Office include better understanding of its file formats to allow interoperability with... [20 Sep 2004]

First 'critical' patch issued for Office 2003

News The "critical update", released late on Tuesday, applies to three of the four major applications in Office 2003 - the Word word processing program, the PowerPoint presentation application and the Excel spreadsheet software, according to a... [06 Nov 2003]

Office 2003 may pose antivirus problem

News You can identify by a couple of hundred bytes that it's a Word document. When saved as an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file, the macros can more or less end up anywhere. This means that scanners must search the entire contents of a file, rather... [24 Mar 2003]

Microsoft takes a risk with Office revamp

News We'll be able to read their XML in applications like Word and Excel," Barzdukas said. People think they can come in with StarOffice and replace Office because all they're getting is commodity word processing and a spreadsheet (through Office). [22 Oct 2002]

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