Let’s get started. 1] Open XML file in MS Excel It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to open XML documents and view or edit their content.

Meanwhile, an upcoming release of the Macintosh software, called Office 2008 for Mac, will use Open XML as its default file format. Open XML was approved as a standard last December by ECMA ...

ODF is a rival to Office Open XML. If Ecma approves the Office Open XML format, used by Microsoft in its forthcoming Office 2007 software suite, the Danish ministries could use that instead.

Microsoft ’s bid to have its Open XML file format approved as an ISO standard took another step forward Monday when that organization put the measure on a voting ballot sent to its member ...

Late last week, the Microsoft MacBU issued an update to the Office Open XML Converter 0.1.1, which converts Office Open XML files (used by Office 2007 for Windows and the forthcoming Office 2008 ...

Ironically, one of those who praised iWork’s handling of the Microsoft file format was a program manager for Office 2007. “ [iWork ’08] reads the Office Open XML files with very high ...

But sometime this spring, Microsoft plans to release similar software to enable users of all older versions of Office for Apple Inc.’s Macintosh systems to access Open XML files created in ...