The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in a surprise move, has announced that it is putting Microsoft's Open XML format—the file format used for Office 2007—on the fast track to ...

What's the world's dominant software company to do when public agencies turn their backs on your proprietary Office format and adopt an open standard instead? Why, get your format declared a standard ...

Microsoft has won approval for its Office Open XML document format from international standards body ECMA International. ECMA’s General Assembly voted 20-1 in favor of the standard at a meeting in ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The default file format for the next version of Office will be XML, it has been revealed. Office 12 ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Open XML has been approved as an international document format, according to unofficial reports, prompting questions about the standardization process. The Geneva-based International ...

ISO/IEC on Tuesday published the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format standard, formally known as ISO/IEC 29500:2008. It describes file formats originally designed by Microsoft for its Office 2007 ...

Microsoft's embattled Office Open XML (OOXML) document format received ISO fast-track approval today after receiving support from approximately 86 percent of the national bodies that participated in ...

REDMOND, Wash. – April 1, 2008 — After more than 14 months of intensive review, a Joint Technical Committee of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) and the International ...

With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...

FIBEX (Field Bus Exchange Format) is an XML format used to describe complex, message-oriented communications systems. AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) is an association whose objective it ...

Microsoft Corp. failed in its attempt to win fast-track ISO standard status for its Office Open XML document format, getting a majority of the votes that were cast but not enough to meet the ...