An XML map allows a business to arrange data stored in XML documents so that the information can be easily imported into a predefined table in an application such as Microsoft Excel. In this way, 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 announced this week that its next version of Office will have increased file format support, including the support promised years ago with the Open XML standard. The announcement was made by ...

Microsoft has already announced that the new version of Word in the upcoming Office 2013 will support the opening and editing of PDF document files for the first time in the history of Word. Today, ...

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"), ...

Microsoft has issued an open letter on interoperability, adding fresh ammunition to the battle of words between those who support Microsoft's Open XML and OpenOffice.org's OpenDocument file formats.

A new "security mitigation" tool from Microsoft can help take the guesswork out of opening Office 2003 files from people you don’'t know or aren't sure you should trust. The Microsoft Office Isolated ...

(Boston) A data format used in Microsoft Corp.'s Office software line has been approved as an international standard -- a move aimed at preserving access to documents created with the package for ...

PARIS — Nov. 22, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will take steps to offer the file format technology behind billions of documents to customers and the industry as an international standard.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday urged a Massachusetts state official to rethink an opinion that Microsoft Corp.’s Open XML (Extensible Markup Language) meets the state’s parameters for an acceptable open ...