Company's Open Specification Promise (OSP), designed to prevent patent problems for third parties, provides "no assurances" to GPL developers, says Software Freedom Law Center.

April 2001 “AlphaBlox has always supported open industry standards in its solutions. We look forward to the two leading OLAP providers driving the evolution of XML for Analysis to support a single XML ...

An XML-based document format from Microsoft. Providing full page layout capabilities, XML Paper Specification (XPS) also allows digital signatures and digital rights to be applied to the documents ...

The editor of the ODF specification, Patrick Durusau, lobbied for Open XML ISO approval to improve interoperability with ODF. At one point, he said that businesses opposed to Open XML were ...

The documentation for Office Open XML (OOXML) runs 7,228 pages and can be ordered on CD from the ISO for 342 Swiss francs ($285). The specification is named ISO/IEC DIS 29500:2008.

If the final draft of the Office Open XML specification wins the assembly’s approval, it will become an Ecma standard, and go on to ISO for fast-track approval, which can take six to nine months.

European standards body Ecma International Thursday published the first draft of the Office Open XML specification online, as Microsoft Corp.’s file format for office documents continues the ...

Ecma, a nonprofit industry association of technology developers, vendors and users, is responsible for future development of Open XML. Approval of the specification, however, was not unanimous.

Unfortunately, the sheer volume of problems in the specification identified by ISO members has made the review process a significant challenge. There were over 1,000 ECMA responses, spanning ...

In addition to releasing the new Version 1.1 of the XMLA specification, Hyperion, Microsoft, SAS, and Simba Technologies recently hosted an interoperability workshop in Vancouver, British Columbia ...

If the final draft of the Office Open XML specification wins the assembly’s approval, it will become an Ecma standard, and go on to ISO for fast-track approval, which can take six months to nine ...

The documentation for Office Open XML (OOXML) runs 7,228 pages and can be ordered on CD from the ISO for 342 Swiss francs (US$285). The specification is named ISO/IEC DIS 29500:2008.