The company's bid--started in 2005--to make the Open XML file formats international standards has succeeded, barring any last-minute changes. The ISO (International Organization for ...

Microsoft has posted a message to its Mactopia site making two announcements: the Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac will be delayed until June (the second major delay ...

The Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter is a stand-along tool that lets users of older versions of MS Office open and edit documents created in Office 2008 for Mac or Windows 2007 Office.

With the introduction of Office 2007, Microsoft abandoned the age-old .doc format in favor of the newer .docx (also known as the Office Open XML format). If you’re still using Word 2003 or an ...

Is Microsoft’s Open XML document standard “so complex and so geared towards compatibility with legacy Office compatibility that it could never be implemented as a fully functional file format ...

Ever since Microsoft announced its Office Open XML file format to be used with the new version of Office 2007 for Windows, Mac-using Office geeks have been living in a sort of quiet fear for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is trumpeting support for its Office Open XML document file format as an international standard from more than 300 companies and organizations on a new "community" Web site set up by the ...