An XML map allows a business to arrange data stored in XML documents so that the information can be easily imported into a predefined table in an application such as Microsoft Excel. In this way ...

That's what Microsoft has managed to do with Open XML, the format of the new Office 2007 program. Geneva-based ECMA has approved Open XML as a international data standard, AP reports.

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim ...

Open XML Converter can convert Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations that are in the Open XML Format so that you can open and edit the files in Office 2004 for Mac and ...

As mentioned in the above paragraph, Microsoft also released its 1.0 version of the Open XML File Format Converter. If you're an Office 2004 user but are constantly getting files from your Office ...

Files created with the new Open XML format used by Office 2007 are actually ZIP packages that contain various XML files as well as images and other data.

Jones wrote that the so-called Office compatibility pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 is the second most popular download on Microsoft’s Web site, behind only Internet Explorer 7 for the ...

Microsoft is trumpeting support for its Office Open XML document file format as an international standard from more than 300 companies and organizations on a new "community" Web site set up by the ...

The team is working on translation between ODF and Open XML for spreadsheets written in Microsoft Excel 2007 and presentations developed in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, Matusow said.