Because the XML format was developed to be as wide ranging as possible across a variety of systems, many computers have the built-in ability to open and view XFDL files with plain text editors.

Jean Paoli, senior director of XML architecture for Microsoft, said, “Microsoft is committed to open XML file formats, and this move shows that we have moved away from binary content that no one ...

Published Tuesday, July 31st 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 ...

Is Microsoft’s Open XML document standard “so complex and so geared towards compatibility with legacy Office compatibility that it could never be implemented as a fully functional file format ...

Open XML, the default file format in Office 2007, was certified in December as a standard by Ecma International, another Geneva-based standards group, after a yearlong process shepherded by Microsoft.

The upcoming version of Office will fully support Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2, while Word 2013 will also be able to open and edit PDF files ...

The Redmond, Wash., companys OOXML (Office Open XML) file formats failed to achieve the two-thirds vote needed for approval as an international standard by the International Organization for ...

Over the weekend I read Kurt Mackie's story about M icrosoft finally supporting the Open XML file format with Office 2013, and I scratched my increasing gray haired head.

Because Apache POI libraries are used in numerous open source projects, developing future libraries to support the Ecma Office Open XML File Formats (the default file format in the 2007 Microsoft Word ...

The Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.1b can convert .docx and .docm documents (the latter are Word macro-enabled documents) into RTF format, which can be opened in Word 2004 ...