formats open xml in news
Microsoft Office 14 to get an airing at PDC
News One is on Office business applications, and the other deals with the software's Open XML file formats. Windows 7 and Windows Cloud may be the stars of Microsoft's Professional Developer... [21 Oct 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google uses thousands of data formats for networked messages, and XML is simply too cumbersome to use as an encoding method for it all, Google software engineer Kenton Varda explained in a separate blog... [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... [23 May 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... [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 Office 2007 for Windows. By further... [22 Feb 2008]
Can Redmond rivals storm the Office stronghold?
News Michael Silver, an analyst at Gartner, said referring to two recent Microsoft setbacks: "I think there's some blood in the water between Microsoft not getting its Open XML [Office document... [19 Sep 2007]
Massachusetts opts for open docs 'third way'
News In a letter posted by the US state's IT division, Henry Dormitzer, undersecretary of administration and finance, and Bethann Pepoli, acting chief information officer, said that by adopting both standards the "Commonwealth continues on... [03 Aug 2007]
National Archive tackles 'digital dark age'
News Using the technology, the National Archive will also be able to convert material into open file formats which can be accessed via more current software. It estimates to have 580 terabytes of data on... [04 Jul 2007]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News If accepted, the policy update would list Office Open XML as acceptable "open formats" for use by executive-branch state agencies. Office Open... [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... [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... [02 Feb 2007]
EC Vista antitrust concerns fleshed out
News The EC was also concerned about XML Paper Specification (XPS) which describes the formats and rules for distributing, archiving, rendering and processing documents created in Microsoft's XPS format.... [25 Oct 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... [16 Oct 2006]
Google rallies to OpenDocument cause
News Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, the XML-based OpenDocument Format has emerged as an alternative with backing from IBM, Sun Microsystems and others, as well as... [13 Jul 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. Microsoft isn't... [06 Jul 2006]
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