HOME blogs op ed unblog 174915192 Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML News Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML By Barbara Darrow December 11, 2005, 11:04 AM EST ...

On paper, LibreOffice (and open-source software in general) has the upper hand. The software is free, you can trust the work ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, an upcoming release of the Macintosh software, called Office 2008 for Mac, will use Open XML as its default file format. Open XML was approved as a standard last December by ECMA ...

Microsoft wants to see Office Open XML, a file format it developed for its Office productivity suite, become the international standard for office documents. The company submitted the technology ...

LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of using complex XML formatting as a lock-in strategy. The open-source community criticizes Microsoft's tactics in transitioning Windows 10 users to Windows 11.

A technical committee in India has rejected Microsoft’s Office Open XML file format as a standard. In the meeting of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) technical committee Thursday, 13 members ...

Microsoft is, of course, advising Office users to choose the Office Open XML format (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) when saving Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects, which already supports the same features ...