REDMOND, Wash. — June 1, 2005 — In a move to bring new levels of data interoperability to its customers and new market opportunities to technology providers throughout the industry, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft's move to create new XML-based file formats for three of its flagship Office products may make it easier for customers to consider rival software, but industry watchers aren't predicting an ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago, ISO members voted to make Microsoft's Office Open XML format an official standard. The vote was not without its share of controversy, but it's a done deal and now the world will ...

Editor of the rival OpenDocument file format standard calls for "co-evolution" as officials weigh the fate of Open XML as an ISO standard. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Today not only marks the release of a new beta Remote Desktop client from Microsoft, but also a new beta Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta). What the heck is this? It ...

Microsoft said Monday it will license for free its Microsoft Office 2003 XML (Extensible Markup Language) schemas, a move that will help outside developers enable other programs to trade data with ...

A major milestone approaches on Microsoft's document standards gambit, but participants say that a final resolution won't happen anytime soon. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Rather than stacking the vote, Microsoft simply wanted to allow interested organizations to participate in the Open XML standardization process, unlike other rival efforts, a company executive said ...

Jean Paoli, a pioneer in the field of document engineering, is founder and CEO of a new Kirkland, Wash.-based AI document engineering startup called Docugami. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A new ...