Microsoft's move to make its Open XML document format an international standard could hobble the uptake of OpenDocument, the OASIS-approved document format that is supported by Sun. Earlier this ...

Ecma, the international standards body accepted Microsoft's proposed Open XML File Format submission for standardization.

Making good on an earlier promise, Novell has posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, adding Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source ...

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 ...

European standards body Ecma International Thursday published the first draft of the Office Open XML specification online, as Microsoft Corp.’s file format for office documents continues the ...

Office Open XML will eventually become a de facto standard simply because it is the default file saving format for Microsoft Office, which continues to dominate the office suite market.

Microsoft's Open XML document format moved toward fast-track ISO approval over the weekend, despite lingering opposition from several key voting countries and concern about overlap between Open ...