Microsoft has won approval for its Offfice Open XML document format from international standards body ECMA International. Microsoft has won approval for its Office Open XML document format from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the ISO standards body have voted to approve Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document format as an international standard, according to unofficial tallies being circulated on the Internet ...

BOSTON – A data format used in Microsoft Corp.’s prevalent Office software line has been approved as an international standard – a move aimed at preserving access to documents created with the package ...

Amman, April 14 th, 2008 - After more than 14 months of intensive review, a Joint Technical Committee of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical ...

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.

The new XML format standards look to be more versatile and better account for the use of different currencies in e-billing, while the new Patent Prosecution Codes aim to be "more practical and ...

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 ...

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 ...