Microsoft has pledged to make its new Office 2007 file formats accessible within the company's other products, but the timeline for that support varies widely. Although the company already has ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft switched to Office Open XML (OOXML) as the default file formats for its applications. However, the legacy .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint) file ...

It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body last week, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma’s vote ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

If you've been accustomed to opening files from newer versions of Microsoft Word in older versions of the software, the error messages you see when you try to open ...

Microsoft are patting themselves on the back for introducing an XML file format in Office 11. While this sounds great, XML data is almost useless to other applications if the DTD remains unpublished.

Blocking old file formats in the Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) release was meant to bolster security for Microsoft customers, but whether the new formats are any more secure than older ones is ...