Learn More The first draft of the Office Open XML file format specification, which Microsoft submitted to standards body Ecma International in November 2005, has been published.

The Open XML document format is being considered for recognition as a formal standard by Ecma International.

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 and Novell have announced that Novell will be providing support for the Office Open XML format—the default file format for Microsoft Office 2007—in its Novell-branded version of the ...

Now that the file is open, the programmer can write tags to the file. First, he would insert a string header to identify the file format as XML to interpreters.

Burton Group, in a report that it said wasn't commissioned or funded by Microsoft, recommends that users adopt Microsoft's Open XML file format instead of the rival ODF one.

Because Microsoft has opened up the technical ingredients for Office Open XML, Microsoft's Robertson said, he expects "very wide uptake" of the format -- citing support in products from Novell ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago, ISO members voted to make Microsoft's Office Open XML format an official standard. The vote was not without its share of controversy, but it's a done deal and now the world ...

With new Open Office support for Microsoft's XML, such moves may leave a place for Microsoft in state offices.

A file with the XLSX file extension is a Microsoft Excel Open XML Format Spreadsheet file. It's a ZIP-compressed, XML-based spreadsheet file created by Microsoft Excel version 2007 and later.