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Microsoft announced today that their new Office Open XML document format, the default format of Office 12, could soon become an official Ecma standard. Ecma is a powerful organization that ...

Ecma, the international standards body accepted Microsoft's proposed Open XML File Format submission for standardization.

Microsoft Office System 2003 contains significant enhancements to the abilities of MS Office applications to manipulate information (structured and unstructured) using XML. Such enhancements will ...

An advantage Office XML has over PDF is its status as an XML grammar. PDF was only allowed for documents whose content and structure will not undergo further modifications and need to be preserved.

Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year ...

This year’s upcoming debut of Microsoft Office 11 will mark the start of a long process of education and adaptation. Our previous look at the Office 11 beta (see “XML for the rest of us ...

This means that any XML generating or consuming tool can at least theoretically interoperate with Word and Excel. Indeed, it's been possible to do this just by saving Word or Excel documents as XML ...

A distinction between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means some customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services.

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 ...

The State of Massachusetts' IT Policy Department issued a statement last week that the Office 2003 XML file format would no longer be an acceptable document exchange format for government offices ...

For more than a year, Microsoft has touted Office 2003's support for Extensible Markup Language (XML), a highly anticipated new feature of the productivity suite. But Microsoft now plans to fully ...