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"), ...

What's the world's dominant software company to do when public agencies turn their backs on your proprietary Office format and adopt an open standard instead? Why, get your format declared a standard ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Open XML has been approved as an international document format, according to unofficial reports, prompting questions about the standardization process. The Geneva-based International ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The default file format for the next version of Office will be XML, it has been revealed. Office 12 ...

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's embattled Office Open XML (OOXML) document format received ISO fast-track approval today after receiving support from approximately 86 percent of the national bodies that participated in ...

REDMOND, Wash. – April 1, 2008 — After more than 14 months of intensive review, a Joint Technical Committee of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) and the International ...

With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...

FIBEX (Field Bus Exchange Format) is an XML format used to describe complex, message-oriented communications systems. AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) is an association whose objective it ...

Microsoft has won approval for its Office Open XML document format from international standards body ECMA International. ECMA’s General Assembly voted 20-1 in favor of the standard at a meeting in ...

Microsoft Corp. won approval for its Office Open XML document format from international standards body Ecma International. Ecma’s General Assembly voted 20-1 in favor of the standard at a meeting in ...