Microsoft said Thursday that XML would be the default file format for three applications when it ships Office 12 late next year. The company said its new Microsoft Office Open XML Formats would be ...

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"), ...

Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that the next version of its Office software will use Internet-friendly XML technology as the default file format for documents created in Word, Excel and ...

Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft switched to Office Open XML (OOXML) as the default file formats for its applications. However, the legacy .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint) file ...