The controversy over this patent began just days before Microsoft announced that the next version of Office will include new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications. Microsoft said that companies can integrate Office...
Next year, the Open XML Translator project, done primarily by developers at French company Clever Age, intends to create converters that can translate between Microsoft's Excel and PowerPoint and the corresponding ODF file formats, Jones added.
If accepted, the policy update would list Office Open XML as acceptable "open formats" for use by executive-branch state agencies. Office Open XML, also referred to as Ecma-376, are the XML-based file formats in Office 2007 that Microsoft...
In a letter posted by the US state's IT division, Henry Dormitzer, undersecretary of administration and finance, and Bethann Pepoli, acting chief information officer, said that by adopting both standards the "Commonwealth continues on its path...
Microsoft has failed by one vote to get the backing necessary for Office Open XML to become an alternative to OpenDocument Format as a standard of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS).
Michael Silver, an analyst at Gartner, said referring to two recent Microsoft setbacks: "I think there's some blood in the water between Microsoft not getting its Open XML [Office document formats] fast-track standards approval and the European...
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