Microsoft has open sourced its Open XML SDK, which will be welcome news for Office developers. The announcement was made by Doug Mahugh on the Microsoft Open Technologies Web site. He blogged that the ...

This is just what a free, open source tool called BaseX does. BaseX “is a scalable and high-performance, yet very light-weight XML Database ... at the top right, a graphical interpretation ...

Microsoft has released Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0, a file translator that allows users to open, edit, and convert Open XML files created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for ...

Applications written in SVG can be made accessible through means for describing the visual information ... Sun and XML: Technology Delivery and Support for Open Standards The XML development ...

An interesting note: Microsoft Office 2008 does not include Visual Basic capabilities in ... with the addition of an official converter for Open XML documents (whenever it is released) may remain ...

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is an open document standard for structured ... the ability to view and edit a XML document as a graphical tree; spell checking; enhanced support for XML ...

Microsoft’s bid to have its Open XML file format approved as an ISO standard took another step forward Monday when that organization put the measure on a voting ballot sent to its member countries.

Microsoft has released significant updates to both Office 2008 and Office 2004, as well as the final release of the Office Open XML converter 1.0. Office 2008 12.1.1 is available as a 153MB ...

An online petition set up by Microsoft to fast-track the standardisation of its Office Open XML document format masks Redmond's concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate.

However, Burton analyst Peter O’Kelly, one of the report’s co-authors, is scheduled to make a presentation at an Open XML press briefing that Microsoft plans to hold in the Seattle area on ...

Learn More. Microsoft has suffered a setback in the quest to have its Open XML document format approved as an ISO standard. A vote on July 13 by the committee established to formulate the United ...