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"), ...

According to Microsoft, the upcoming version of Office (Office 12, for now) will make use of XML as the default file formats for the big three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While full details on ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body last week, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma’s vote ...

So much for maintaining their proprietary file types to lock in users. Thoughts? A couple things stand out for me: 1. It's not WordML/SpreadsheetML/etc. Hopefully this time they'll pick one format and ...

Sun Microsystems is contributing the XML file format specification utilized in the OpenOffice.org 1.0 project to a new technical committee recently formed by the OASIS standards body. The new ...

ITworld.com – XML has been around now, in its final fully fledged form, for more years than I care to remember. Having played a small part in its original creation, thinking back that far makes me ...

Believe it or not, there were more announcements at MacWorld than just Apple's iPhone. Microsoft, too, had a bit of news. Microsoft officials announced on January 9 that the next version of Office for ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A file format heavily promoted by Microsoft has failed to gain initial approval as an international standard, reflecting a continuing struggle between the company and critics who ...