Microsoft confirms Open XML has gained ISO ratification. Looking ahead, expect scrutiny of the standards process and minimal change in the marketplace. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

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 ...

ISO/IEC on Tuesday published the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format standard, formally known as ISO/IEC 29500:2008. It describes file formats originally designed by Microsoft for its Office 2007 ...

Desktop integration begins with documents, not with any toolkit or bundle of applications. If files can be read and written by every application, users can communicate, work together and become ...

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 14, 2002 — Jean Paoli, Microsoft XML architect and co-creator of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) XML 1.0 standard, will be a featured speaker at the IDEAlliance XML ...

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 ...