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News (11)

• Microsoft Office 2007 is incompatible with OOXML

  Word documents generated by the latest version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.

• OOXML just a Microsoft 'marketing tool'

  The developer of XML and a former ISO committee chair have both claimed that Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML accredited as an international standard in order to forward the company's wider interests.

• Microsoft struggling in aftermath of OOXML vote

  The Microsoft-created specification OOXML is struggling to achieve the two-thirds majority backing of ISO members in order for it to become a recognised standard, the aftermath of a high-profile meeting has revealed.

• 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.

• OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'

  The data format standard has the potential to transform the world just as the Web did, according to a senior Sun executive.

Features and Case Studies (5)

• Putting XML in the fast lane

  Data exchange format is just too slow, some say. But there's debate over the best way to make Extensible Markup Language fly.

• What's wrong with RSS is also what's right with it

  The popular Web syndication's brand of flexibility promises to make life difficult for all those attempting to bring order to the natural chaos that defines the Internet.

• XML: Too much of a good thing?

  Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache.

• When standards don't apply

  A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.

• Extra headaches of securing XML

  XML-based protocols, or Web Services, are gaining popularity. But expanded use means greater concerns over security. Additional reading: Web Services 101

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