An e-business standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents.
Microsoft has failed in its initial effort to fast-track the Office Open XML (OOXML) document file format as an international standard but it will have another chance in early 2008.
IBM has taken Microsoft to task over its service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, claiming the software maker relied too much on Windows-oriented, proprietary standards.
Contrary to claims by the US Department of Defense that Office Open XML might lead to increased security concerns, vendor lock-in and backwards compatibility issues, Microsoft claims that OOXML resolves exactly these issues.
The governor's office of Massachusetts said Microsoft's effort to standardise Office document formats could meet the commonwealth's procurement guidelines.
Amazon engineer DeWitt Clinton's ringing endorsement of Atom over RSS as the XML flavour of choice for syndicated feed content for discerning geeks made headlines yesterday, although the points he makes have been made before.
An e-business standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
The RosettaNet standard will provide a non-proprietary tool for developing business processes on Oracle's 9i application server.
The Web's leading standards group has approved two XML encryption specifications, a move that promises to boost the development of secure Web services.
W3C has proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organisation's push to standardise technologies crucial to Web services.
As Australia and various other nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Open Office XML becomes an ISO standard, the Redmond giant is attempting to downplay fears that OOXML adopters will be hooked into the company's technology.
The software giant is set to unveil more details about the controversial electronic forms software, an addition to the forthcoming Office 11, including a new name.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
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.
Microsoft is aiming higher with the new version of FrontPage, which will be launched later this year and sold as a standalone product.
New programs are to be aimed at encouraging software makers to produce applications for the next version of Office.
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