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 ...

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim Thatcher ...

The latest update to Microsoft's Office 2008 for Mac, Service Pack 2, has created a host of issues for users. One of the more prevalent problems on our comment boards ...

European standards body Ecma International Thursday published the first draft of the Office Open XML specification online, as Microsoft Corp.’s file format for office documents continues the required ...

Late last week, the Microsoft MacBU issued an update to the Office Open XML Converter 0.1.1, which converts Office Open XML files (used by Office 2007 for Windows and the forthcoming Office 2008 for ...

Microsoft on Thursday released a pair of updates to fix a problem with Open XL documents: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 Update and Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter 1.1.1.

Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) files are used by large organizations such as the United States military to store and exchange form data within an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.

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 ...

A group of vendors led by Microsoft and aimed at fostering interoperability between different document formats has unveiled several tools to help people translate among documents created in Open XML ...

JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...