An esoteric but key U.S. technical standards committee decided last week not to endorse Microsoft‘s Office Open XML document specification, increasing the odds that the U.S. will vote against ...

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 ...

The International Standards Organisation has voted to approve Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as an official international standard, but critics say that's not good enough. The new format – a ...

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 ...

Microsoft placed the Office binary document formats under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise. OPS is basically Microsoft’s own pledge that they will abide by the terms to keep any of their ...

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains “more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than an objective technology selection” by users, according to a report released Monday by analysts at Burton Group ...

I am having a problem .NET's System.Xml.XmlTextWriter object. Namely, there are extra characters in the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the file after it is written.<BR><BR>Even tho I am specifying that the ...

I'm pretty new to Python, and though I'm sure I could handle this in some other manner, I'm thinking there's probably some nice pythonic approach to the following problem. Would anyone care to ...

It’s been several years since Microsoft introduced a new document format in its Office 2007 suite called .Docx, but still, many people seem to wonder what .docx file is and how to open, read, and edit ...