The latest update to Microsoft's Office 2008 for Mac, Service Pack 2, has created a host of issues for users. One of the more prevalent problems on our comment boards ...

Microsoft announced today that their new Office Open XML document format, the default format of Office 12, could soon become an official Ecma standard. Ecma is a powerful organization that documents ...

Chris Capossela, who runs product management for the Office family of products, dropped by to see me to dribble out more details about the next version of Microsoft Office (currently dubbed "12"), ...

Microsoft's move to make its Open XML document format an international standard could hobble the uptake of OpenDocument, the OASIS-approved document format that is supported by Sun. Earlier this month ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office file ...

After months of debate and controversy, Microsoft Corp. will reach a pivotal moment this weekend in its effort to win approval of its Office Open XML document format by a key international standards ...

Nobody has invested more in defeating Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document format than IBM. So why is IBM supporting Open XML in a handful of its products? According to technical documentation ...

A new XML-based file format will become the default in Office 12, Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday, as it prepares to discuss plans for its Office update at next week’s TechEd developer conference.

The INCITS, the technical committee advised by the V1 group to give its recommendations for ISO approval, still has to deliberate the findings of the V1 and submit its decision before an early ...

Microsoft has won approval for its Offfice Open XML document format from international standards body ECMA International. Microsoft has won approval for its Office Open XML document format from ...

It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful ...

It may seem to have started in Massachusetts, but the ideal behind the industrywide clamoring for open document formats isn’t just an isolated government crusade. A full-scale rebellion against ...