Two other features also are similarly restricted: the document protection technology Windows Rights Management Services (RMS), and Excel List, a feature for improving analysis of data lists. Text in Office 2003 files stored in XML format might be...
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) is already working on making OpenOffice.org's handling of XML a standard, called the Oasis Open Document Format. In a recent letter to the European Commission (EC...
A handful of document format converters are already under development, including an Office plug-in from the OpenDocument Foundation, which is expected to be tested by Massachusetts. Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open source project to...
Once installed, a person can open and save documents in the ODF format from Word. The Microsoft format is called Office Open XML (OOXML), which is the default document format in the company's recently released Office 2007 suite.
With its planned UOF converts, Microsoft is taking a similar approach in sponsoring an open source project. The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML - a set of file...
Brown said: "The question behind the question, for a lot of the current OOXML debate, seems to be: can Microsoft really be trusted to behave? In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office...