With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...

Last week, just before the Thanksgiving holiday got underway in the US, Larry Rosen, the attorney that wrote the book on open source licensing If the Microsoft news wins Google over to the company's ...

According to Microsoft, the upcoming version of Office (Office 12, for now) will make use of XML as the default file formats for the big three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While full details on ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To work with Struts, you need to obtain the required JAR files. In this Apache Struts 2.5 ...

Chris Capossela, who runs product management for the Office family of products, dropped by to see me to dribble out more details about the next version of Microsoft Office (currently dubbed "12"), ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As MySQL installations continue to migrate and evolve to newer versions, the online JPA and ...

The International Standards Organisation has voted to approve Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as an official international standard, but critics say that's not good enough. The new format – a ...

Creating precise and structured instructions for AI agents is essential for achieving consistent, reliable, and organized outputs. If you ever found yourself frustrated with AI outputs that feel more ...

Microsoft, kings of irony, moved to the new Office Open XML document format with its new Office 2007 for Windows. It's ironic, because the format, well, won't really open on Mac OS X. Fortunately the ...