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  • Office standards battle grinds on

    Standards body Ecma International has created a committee to standardise Microsoft Office document formats, handing the software giant a victory in an intensifying struggle over desktop software.

  • Gates: Office 2007 will enable a new class of application

    The next version of Microsoft Office will be "dramatically better" as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect.

  • Office 2007 to support ODF and PDF

    Responding to pressure customers and governments, Microsoft has announced Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add support for the Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS).

  • Massachusetts warms to Microsoft Office standard

    The governor's office of Massachusetts said Microsoft's effort to standardise Office document formats could meet the commonwealth's procurement guidelines.

  • Sun: ODF needed to prevent 'corporate Alzheimer's'

    Having an open, stable document format is necessary to preserve the world's information, top Sun Microsystems executives said on Wednesday.

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  • OASIS calls for OpenOffice XML spec

    A group of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new standard to handle desktop application documents.

  • Microsoft limits XML in Office 2003

    A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services.

  • XML: Great hope or great hype?

    XML has been called everything from the technology that will revolutionise the Web to a nuisance. What's really the story?

  • Security in year of 'BUT'

    IT watcher Jon Oltsik says businesses are changing how they think about information security -- and none too soon.

  • Will tech titans derail Web services plans?

    Disagreement over intellectual property issues could derail a new Web services standards effort.

Reviews (1)

  • How open is the new Office?

    Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.

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