In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was accepted as an international standard, according to an announcement issued today by the International Organization for Standardization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2008
Apparently, it's not a joke on this April Fools day that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was approved as an international standard.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2008
Microsoft confirmed "very limited, targeted" attacks on an open Word security flaw. The company is researching a patch.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 24, 2008
A calculation-error bug in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, which was acknowledged by Microsoft last Friday, has been resolved with a security update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 21, 2008
Microsoft admitted on Friday that a patch it released last week is causing Excel 2003 to make some incorrect calculations.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 17, 2008
The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard for business documents.
- By William Jackson
- March 17, 2008
Ease of use was a big emphasis on stage at Convergence 2008, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer noting the Microsoft Office-like interface of Dynamics products in his keynote address.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2008
Sun, Microsoft are working together to develop a set of guidelines for implementing Exchange Server 2007 on Sun server and storage hardware.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 11, 2008
Microsoft rolled out four "critical" security bulletins -- all with as many as 12 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, according to security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 11, 2008
Microsoft announced that it will be releasing four patches, all rated critical because they allow remote-code execution, and all involving Microsoft Office in some way.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 06, 2008
A Document Interoperability Initiative was announced by Microsoft today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2008
Microsoft and Google both recently added to their in-the-clouds application offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2008
After nearly three months of private beta testing, Microsoft Office Live Workspace is being rolled out worldwide as a full public beta.
- By David Nagel
- March 04, 2008
Microsoft today launched an open source software project on the SourceForge site, aimed at developing conversion tools that will translate Microsoft Office binary files to Office Open XML (OOXML) file formats.
- By Michael Desmond
- February 15, 2008