Microsoft’s Office Open XML wins industry standard (EARTHtimes.org)

Microsoft’s Office Open XML wins industry standard (EARTHtimes.org)
European industry standards group ECMA International has approved Microsoft Corp.’s latest versions of Office file formats as industry standards, offering the software major scope to compete in the merging field of open source data. ECMA announced Microsoft’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats in its latest Office Open XML as official industry standard.

Flatirons Solutions Selected for XML Project with Harvard Business School Publishing

Flatirons Solutions Selected for XML Project with Harvard Business School Publishing
Flatirons Solutions, an Inc. 500 Company and leader in XML publishing, is assisting Harvard Business School Publishing with implementing an enterprise-wide XML publishing standard. For publishers, managing enterprise content in XML expands audience reach, and creates hard cost savings in production and distribution. [PRWEB Nov 30, 2006]

Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard
For the past year representatives from Apple Computer Inc. Barclays Capital BP The British Library Essilor Intel Corporation Microsoft Corp. NextPage Inc. Novell Inc. Statoil ASA Toshiba and the U.S. Library of Congress have worked together to help ensure that the Office Open XML Formats are highly useful and interoperable in a wide variety of scenarios.