The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an ...

Microsoft already has a patch available that strips out XML technology the company is barred from using after Jan. 11, in Word 2007 and Office 2007, according to a Microsoft Web site. The patch ...

Apparently, Microsoft has already created a Word workaround for the permanent injunction that was upheld yesterday by an appeals court in the patent infringement suit that i4i had brought. As Ed Bott ...

When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

Goldman Sachs says AI will boost productivity, cause a short spike in unemployment, and disrupt some jobs, but the impact will be brief. Acrobat Studio combines Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and ...

The short version of the story so many are talking about today: A Texas judge is barring Microsoft from selling Microsoft Word due to alleged patent infringement and fining the Redmondians multiple ...

For enterprises implementing a content or document management system, converting legacy Word documents into a more open and structured format like XML can be a difficult task. In a Webcast hosted ...

The Microsoft MacBU has released a new version of the Office Open XML File Converter 0.2, a tool for converting Office Open XML files (as are generated by Office 2007 for Windows and the forthcoming ...

Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and OpenDocument Format (ODF) for Office ...

I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we'd all used in office jobs. "You know, I've been using Word for over 20 years," I said, and ...