An Office Open XML (OOXML) document is a zipped (compressed) collection of folders, subfolders, XML files and other file types, which is a huge contrast from previous Microsoft Office and ...

Because the XML format was developed to be as wide ranging as possible across a variety of systems, many computers have the built-in ability to open and view XFDL files with plain text editors.

Late last week, the Microsoft MacBU issued an update to the Office Open XML Converter 0.1.1, which converts Office Open XML files (used by Office 2007 for Windows and the forthcoming Office 2008 ...

Making good on an earlier promise, Novell has posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, adding Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source ...

Microsoft's move to make its Open XML document format an international standard could hobble the uptake of OpenDocument, the OASIS-approved document format that is supported by Sun. Earlier this ...

Ecma, the international standards body accepted Microsoft's proposed Open XML File Format submission for standardization.