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 ...

Microsoft has posted a message to its Mactopia site making two announcements: the Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac will be delayed until June (the second major delay ...

Microsoft is continuing to push its claim that developers and users just can't get enough of Open XML, the new file format that the company has baked into Office 2007.

The converter provides read-only access to Office Open XML documents created with Office 2007. For the time being, it's Word-only and can convert those files to Rich Text Files (.rtf).

Microsoft has developed the Open XML file format, a program used to open and use documents and files stored in a computer, to ensure functionality with its Office software applications. The ...

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has released a minor update to Office 2008 for Mac that fixes a bug when opening Open XML files. The update, version 12.2.1, has just been posted to the Office for ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body. The vote could make it easier for users and vendors to justify supporting both Open XML and ...

After spending more money than any other company to thwart Microsoft's Open XML document-standard aspirations, IBM turns out to actually be supporting them in a handful of products.