In the long run, a more rigorous inspection of OOXML is advantageous, because it could potentially bring improvements to the format that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Although Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format became an ISO standard two years ago, the company still hasn't built any software that truly complies with the standard. Microsoft ...

With OOXML, one can use Notepad or just about any productivity software like Microsoft's rival OpenOffice, to open a file that's saved in Microsoft Word document. OOXML, ...

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OOXML is crucial to the future development of Microsoft's Office suite, and the chief rival to that product is the free OpenOffice suite. John McCreesh, ...

Some experts believe there will ultimately be a merging of the OOXML and ODF document formats, while others fear OOXML adoption will lead to problem of duplicate formats ...

The International Organization for Standardization's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as an international standard is just the beginning of what could be a lengthy process before the file format can ...

MOSCON Slide: OOXML. you can see that the positioning now is that the tool is key, and the document format secondary, which, to my mind, is a bizarre assertion, although it’s one that aligns ...

Standards are supposed to be about a process of creating points of reference that people can rely upon, arrived at through a process of careful honing and consensus. Against this background, the ...

— -- It looks as if Microsoft's OOXML office document file format will be published as an open standard after all. The International Standards Organization (ISO) today rejected four appeals ...

Instead, the analysts advise exploiting OOXML, using ODF by exception rather than default, and getting “out of the (traditional) office more often” by tapping XML forms-based Web-centric ...

Arguments about Microsoft’s OOXML format date back to my days when I read Slashdot for fun. Yeah, those days are long gone. Anyway, the International Organization for Standardization rejected ...