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.
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.
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.
Having an open, stable document format is necessary to preserve the world's information, top Sun Microsystems executives said on Wednesday.
The data format standard has the potential to transform the world just as the Web did, according to a senior Sun executive.
Data exchange format is just too slow, some say. But there's debate over the best way to make Extensible Markup Language fly.
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.
Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
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