In designing web and cross-platform portable applications, XML has an important role to play. You can easily open .xml and other file types in Notepad++ by adding their extensions to the Registered ...

Citing statements of support from more than 300 companies and organizations, Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that interest in its Office Open XML file format continues to grow. Comments backing the file ...

Over the weekend I read Kurt Mackie's story about Microsoft finally supporting the Open XML file format with Office 2013, and I scratched my increasing gray haired head. Didn't Microsoft already do ...

Microsoft has released significant updates to both Office 2008 and Office 2004, as well as the final release of the Office Open XML converter 1.0. Office 2008 12.1.1 is available as a 153MB download ...

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.

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

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. has won a controversial standards vote likely to legitimize its file-format technology for use by governments and large organizations worldwide, the ...

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 by any ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...