When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

Microsoft today said that retailers can continue to sell unmodified versions of Word 2007, even though a court order that required the company to remove custom XML technology from the software took ...

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 ...

Apparently, Microsoft has already created a Word workaround for the permanent injunction that was upheld yesterday by an appeals court in the patent infringement suit that i4i had brought. As Ed Bott ...

Microsoft already has a patch available that strips out XML technology the company is barred from using after Jan. 11, in Word 2007 and Office 2007, according to a Microsoft Web site. The patch ...

The Microsoft MacBU has released a new version of the Office Open XML File Converter 0.2, a tool for converting Office Open XML files (as are generated by Office 2007 for Windows and the forthcoming ...

Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and ...