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 ...

Microsoft has released Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0, a file translator that allows users to open, edit, and convert Open XML files created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Office standards chief Jim Thatcher quietly announced that Microsoft would add ”two additional formats for use: Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2. … [and] ...

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's move to make its Open XML document format an international standard could hobble the uptake of OpenDocument, the OASIS-approved document format that is supported by Sun. Earlier this month ...

Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications ...

Earlier this week we published a preview of Microsoft Office 2008, the next generation of Office for Mac OS X that will ship in the second half of 2007. Though the update boasts some impressive new ...

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 ...

Microsoft has decided to submit its Open XML document schema to the EMCA global standards body in a bid to get it ratified as a standardized document format. Open XML is the document format that ...

Citing statements of support from more than 300 companies and organizations, Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that interest in its Office Open XML file format continues to grow. Comments backing the file ...

Amman, April 14 th, 2008 - After more than 14 months of intensive review, a Joint Technical Committee of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical ...