Enterprises and agencies looking to adopt open source software alternative are struggling to ditch XML formats.

Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft switched to Office Open XML (OOXML) as the default file formats for its applications. However, the legacy .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint) file ...

It wants to keep things as open as possible.

Microsoft has pledged to make its new Office 2007 file formats accessible within the company's other products, but the timeline for that support varies widely. Although the company already has ...

I know this is not really a pure Linux type question, but could an open source office file format help the computing community in general. MS Word's .doc is the de facto standard right now and it ...

I still don't quite see what's in it for Microsoft. It makes it easier for competitors to make fully Office compliant apps. Or is it a ploy to make an XML-ized Office format the default format for ALL ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body last week, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma’s vote ...

Microsoft Corp. deliberately broke access to older files, including many generated by its own products, to step up security with the newest Office 2003 service pack, a company evangelist said ...

Microsoft’s plan to “sandbox” Office documents in the next version of its application suite is an admission that it can’t keep hackers from exploiting file format bugs, a security analyst said today.

The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, it emerged this week. Office ...