They are mostly using ageing products and are facing a choice of whether or not to accept Microsoft's new licensing model. The nicely boxed product comes in at $75 in the US (£52.99 in the UK) and offers facilities for spreadsheet, database, word...
Microsoft counters that argument by pointing out that the greater use of XML in Office will make the software more flexible and able to read the growing number of business documents generated in XML format.
The new software includes specialised extensions, such as tools for creating legal documents that used to be sold separately, plus integrated support for publishing documents in Adobe Systems' widespread portable document format (PDF).
We view the EU report as a validation of our investment in XML and our open, royalty-free approach," Jean Paoli, senior director of XML architecture for Microsoft, said in a recent open letter to the EU.
The commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalised its decision to standardise desktop applications on OpenDocument, a format not supported by Microsoft Office. As it proposed late last month before a comment period, Massachusetts has decided to use...
Google has joined a group that is promoting an OpenDocument Format standard that allows people to open documents regardless of the application they were created in. Microsoft recently launched the Open XML Translator project so developers can...
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