Microsoft Corp.’s Open XML file format cleared a small hurdle Wednesday, after documents released by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) showed fewer countries harboring strong ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Open XML file format cleared a small hurdle Wednesday, after documents released by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) showed fewer countries harboring strong ...

The U.S. delegate organization to the powerful ISO standards body is now almost sure to vote against approving Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document format as an open standard this year. That ...

The standards body that is pushing Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document format for approval as an ISO standard published a 2,300-page document on Monday addressing complaints and suggestions ...

Open XML competes with the open source Open Document Format, used by open source office suites such as OpenOffice and StarOffice. Such suites have the look and feel of Microsoft's Office suite, ...

European antitrust regulators sent letters earlier in the year to European standards bodies exploring how the standards-setting process was working. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Office standards chief Jim Thatcher quietly announced that Microsoft would add ”two additional formats for use: Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2. … [and] ...

A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft, even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its ...

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim Thatcher ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...