Microsoft has open sourced its Open XML SDK, which will be welcome news for Office developers. The announcement was made by Doug Mahugh on the Microsoft Open Technologies Web site. He blogged that the ...

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Microsoft this week released a preview of a new software development kit for use with the Open XML standards native to Office 2007. The company said the SDK is meant to streamline development chores ...

Microsoft this morning revealed to developers the expected next steps in the software development kit (SDK) for the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format specification. Available as a community ...

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 ...

Is Microsoft’s Open XML document standard “so complex and so geared towards compatibility with legacy Office compatibility that it could never be implemented as a fully functional file format by any ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards ...