Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source ...

Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications ...

We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to open an XML file in Excel, Word, Chrome, and Edge. Let’s get started. It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to ...

Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format may have hit the first bumps on its road to becoming an ISO-approved standard. Nineteen countries, including some that have adopted the alternative ...

In approving the specification, Ecma's General Assembly meeting in Geneva also agreed to submit the standard for adoption by the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO. Approval by the ...

More specifically, the Geneva-based organization formed a Technical Committee to produce a formal standard of the work that is compatible with Office Open XML formats. That committee will take on ...

Company says customers and concerns about interoperability drive its continued work to standardize its open file format, a rival to ODF Rather than stacking the vote, Microsoft simply wanted to allow ...

Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft Corp. as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt ...