In approving the specification, Ecma's General Assembly meeting in Geneva also agreed to submit the standard for adoption by the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO. Approval by the ...

Citing statements of support from more than 300 companies and organizations, Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that interest in its Office Open XML file format continues to grow. Comments backing the file ...

In the runup to the ISO vote on whether to approve Open XML, the executive committee of INCITS approved the Open XML draft 'with comments' Microsoft’s quest to have Open XML approved by the ...

Massachusetts approves Open XML open document format for use alongside Microsoft ODF. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wednesday added Open XML to its list of approved open documents formats. The ...

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source ...

Microsoft’s bid to have its Open XML file format approved as an ISO standard took another step forward Monday when that organization put the measure on a voting ballot sent to its member countries.

Microsoft Corp.’s Open XML file format cleared a small hurdle Wednesday, after documents released by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) showed fewer countries harboring strong ...

More specifically, the Geneva-based organization formed a Technical Committee to produce a formal standard of the work that is compatible with Office Open XML formats. That committee will take on ...

But perhaps the most important update in this version is improved interoperability with Microsoft Office file formats like DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX. Apparently, users were experiencing bugs when opening ...