open xml
RSS open xmlMiddleware and Management Support for Programmable QoS-Network Architectures
White Paper The middleware suggest for enabling openness and programmability of future DiffServ QoS architectures uses XML in the definition of specific policy languages, provides XML extensions to satisfy new needs and the management of deployed policies on... [18 Jul 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 post. [11 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Compatibility Tips for Office 2008 for Mac and the 2007 Office Release for Windows (Level 200)
White Paper If one also use Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac or collaborate with others who do, he or she may be happy to learn that both versions use the new Open XML file formats and share much of the same functionality. [09 Jul 2008]
DB2 for Linux Overview
White Paper Its embrace of open standards like Java and XML, and integration with many open source products such as Apache, PHP, Perl and Python make it the preferred database management system on Linux. Linux is a revolutionary Open Source platform that is... [03 Jul 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Microsoft has admitted that, despite being one of the dominant names in IT for more than 30 years, it had little or no experience of software standards until the company was mid-way through the process of getting Office Open XML approved by the... [24 Jun 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial... [23 Jun 2008]
EC pledges open standards support
News The Commission also said earlier this year it would investigate allegations about Microsoft's behaviour, including allegations of rigged voting during International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) accreditation for Microsoft Office Open XML... [12 Jun 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Advanced Tips and Tricks: Customizing the Ribbon Using Office Open XML (Level 300)
White Paper If anyone knows the basics of editing the XML behind 2007 Office release documents, customizing the Ribbon is one of the easiest tasks to do. The presenter of this webcast looks at the basics of Ribbon customization, including how to create one's... [30 May 2008]
Live From Redmond: VB9 - Working With XML in Visual Basic
White Paper XML permeates every modern application today from XHTML, XAML, RSS, SOAP, Office Open XML just to name a few. Even the Visual Studio project files and configuration settings are XML files. The latest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008... [30 May 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Compatibility Tips for the 2007 Office System File Formats: Collaborating With Users of Earlier Versions (Level 300)
White Paper The focus of this webcast is on the differences in behavior when sharing Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 documents (the Office Open XML Formats) versus saving the documents in the previous file formats (Compatibility... [30 May 2008]
MDA for the Enterprise: An Architect's Approach to More Productive Development
White Paper MDA is applicable to the complete development life cycle of designing, deploying, integrating, and managing applications, using open standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI... [30 May 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News The ISO/IEC standardisation process resulted in a number of changes to the Open XML specification. Matusow added that Microsoft will continue to participate in Open XML, ODF, PDF and XPS working groups. [23 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News However, at the start of this year the Commission began its own investigation into Microsoft's interoperability issues, an investigation that has since expanded to take in questions over how Microsoft may have used its dominance in the sector to... [14 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format. [02 May 2008]
Advanced Tips and Tricks: Breaking Into Your Office Open XML Format Documents (Level 300)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast provides a guided tour through the XML behind the documents, along with an introduction to how one can edit the XML directly to get more from the documents than ever before. [01 May 2008]
