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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Microsoft Office Open XML is the default document format for its Office 2007 suite, which was recently released to businesses and is set for consumer availability on January 30.

Microsoft submitted Open XML to Ecma International in November 2004, and the standards organization has approved a final version of the specification. The International Organization for Standards ...

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 ...

A US standards body has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as an international standard, which could further boost the popularity of open source standard OpenDocument (ODF) ...

In a statement, the Linux Foundation said the length of the Open XML specification — about 6,000 pages versus ODF’s 600 — has made it difficult to ensure that it meets quality standards ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to adopt both OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's rival Office Open XML document format. In a letter posted by the US state's IT division on Wednesday, Henry ...