Microsoft on Monday will announce that its crowning digital media technology, code-named Corona, officially will be called Windows Media 9 Series. Windows Media 9 is seen as an important technology ...

Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body Ecma International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over ...

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Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats. The state's Information Technology Division on Monday posted a draft proposal, part of a ...

Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has made technical information about all of its Office binary file formats openly available to outside software developers, while promising never to sue them for ...

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 ...

Microsoft plans to make publicly available details of its .pst format so developers can get programmatic access to e-mail, calendar, contact and other data stored in on desktops. Microsoft Monday said ...

Microsoft’s attempts to compete for state contracts took a hit in early September when it failed to win an open standards designation from a major international standards body for a file format used ...

Microsoft recently announced significant enhancements to the file viewer in Microsoft 365, revolutionizing how users interact with various file types across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. This ...

Microsoft has upgraded its 365 Copilot to actively edit and format live documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, moving beyond its earlier passive role. The integration allows users to issue natural ...

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