When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer. Indeed, there's plenty of overlap between ...

Microsoft’s attempts to compete for state contracts took a hit in early September when it failed to win an open standards designation from a major international standards body for a file format used ...

Brazil, India and South Africa lodged appeals with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) last week, IEC head of communications Jonathan Buck said. The appeals would be evaluated by the ...

A data format used in Microsoft Corp.'s prevalent Office software line has been approved as an international standard — a move aimed at preserving access to documents created with the package for ...

The International Organization for Standardization, which oversees files formats and other standards information, published the official specs for the Open Document Format last week. The ODF file ...