With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...

According to Microsoft, the upcoming version of Office (Office 12, for now) will make use of XML as the default file formats for the big three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While full details on ...

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Sun Microsystems is contributing the XML file format specification utilized in the OpenOffice.org 1.0 project to a new technical committee recently formed by the OASIS standards body. The new ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A file format heavily promoted by Microsoft has failed to gain initial approval as an international standard, reflecting a continuing struggle between the company and critics who ...

Last week, just before the Thanksgiving holiday got underway in the US, Larry Rosen, the attorney that wrote the book on open source licensing If the Microsoft news wins Google over to the company's ...

ITworld.com – XML has been around now, in its final fully fledged form, for more years than I care to remember. Having played a small part in its original creation, thinking back that far makes me ...

Today not only marks the release of a new beta Remote Desktop client from Microsoft, but also a new beta Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta). What the heck is this? It ...

FIBEX (Field Bus Exchange Format) is an XML format used to describe complex, message-oriented communications systems. AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) is an association whose objective it ...