The number of file types supported has been increased and the use of XML ensures documents take up less disk space. Citrix has also tweaked the way server-hosted and local applications interoperate and it's overhauled the collaboration functions...
Web-based systems also are typically slower accessing data. The notion of compound documents - documents made up of other documents - has been around for a long time, and Microsoft has had this in its products for a long time," said Directions on...
The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, has emerged as the standard for embedding interactive features into documents. Corel's advantages in the XML market include familiar authoring environments and use of open standards such as Scalable Vector...
On top of the proposed document formats, the OASIS UBL group has released diagrams based on the unified modeling language (UML), a standard for software development, that give software engineers tools to build applications using XML documents.
WSE version 2 is designed to simplify the process of securing communications between parties and of ensuring the identity of people in a business transaction, according to Microsoft executives. The toolkit also introduces the ability to transport...
The company claimed to be receiving more than 120,000 requests per month for such a function, and said it would be available in all Office applications that generated documents, reports or diagrams. Strange said there would be partner opportunities...