Chris Capossela, who runs product management for the Office family of products, dropped by to see me to dribble out more details about the next version of Microsoft Office (currently dubbed "12"), ...

According to Microsoft, the upcoming version of Office (Office 12, for now) will make use of XML as the default file formats for the big three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While full details on ...

PARIS — Nov. 22, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will take steps to offer the file format technology behind billions of documents to customers and the industry as an international standard.

The International Standards Organisation has voted to approve Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as an official international standard, but critics say that's not good enough. The new format – a ...

Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit on Tuesday released a new Word converter for Office 2004 for Mac giving it access to the company’s new Office Open XML file format. Microsoft also gave a status ...