The next version of Microsoft Office will be "dramatically better" as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect.
Responding to a request from the European Union to improve data interoperability, Microsoft has committed in perpetuity to offering a royalty-free license of Office-related XML document formats.
The governor's office of Massachusetts said Microsoft's effort to standardise Office document formats could meet the commonwealth's procurement guidelines.
Having an open, stable document format is necessary to preserve the world's information, top Sun Microsystems executives said on Wednesday.
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A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
The software giant's recent XML-related patent applications highlight the struggle between open and proprietary.
Electronic-forms projects are the software world's flavour of the month, with Microsoft, Adobe and others attempting to simplify electronic business transactions.
New programs are to be aimed at encouraging software makers to produce applications for the next version of Office.
Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.
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The software giant is set to unveil more details about the controversial electronic forms software, an addition to the forthcoming Office 11, including a new name.
WordPerfect 12.0 features a core stable of productivity apps but suffers from its poor handling of Microsoft files.
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