Forget Super Tuesday. Consider Super Friday. Super Friday is February 29, the end of the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting which will decide the fate of Open XML as an ISO standard. Opponents say ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards ...

The U.S. delegate organization to the powerful ISO standards body is now almost sure to vote against approving Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document format as an open standard this year. That ...

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 ...

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An esoteric but key U.S. technical standards committee decided last week not to endorse Microsoft‘s Office Open XML document specification, increasing the odds that the U.S. will vote against ...

Microsoft and Novell have announced that Novell will be providing support for the Office Open XML format—the default file format for Microsoft Office 2007—in its Novell-branded version of the ...

Microsoft announced this week that its next version of Office will have increased file format support, including the support promised years ago with the Open XML standard. The announcement was made by ...

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 ...

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 scored another victory in its quest to have its XML-based file format accepted as a technology standard. On Wednesday, Massachusetts said it has ratified the addition of Open XML to its ...