Microsoft and Novell have announced that Novell will be providing support for the Office Open XML format—the default file format for Microsoft Office 2007—in its Novell-branded version of the ...

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 21, 2005 – Millions of people around the world have created billions of business productivity documents using Microsoft Office over the years – many of which are in the process of ...

The movement towards open document formats in government is gaining steam, as a bill was introduced in the California legislature to require state government to use XML formats, BetaNews reports. The ...

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 Corp. today said it will work with the Chinese government to craft tools for translating documents between the company’s Open XML and China’s home-brewed Uniform Office Format (UOF). UOF, ...

Microsoft has released Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0, a file translator that allows users to open, edit, and convert Open XML files created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

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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 ...

Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Microsoft document format that may be adopted as an international standard this weekend is a ploy to lock in customers, who could lose control over their own data in a ...