When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an ...

Microsoft Word can save and convert any document into the XML Paper Specification (XPS) file, but due to the nature of the XPS format, importing XPS files into Word is more complicated. There is a ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office file ...

The short version of the story so many are talking about today: A Texas judge is barring Microsoft from selling Microsoft Word due to alleged patent infringement and fining the Redmondians multiple ...

I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we'd all used in office jobs. "You know, I've been using Word for over 20 years," I said, and ...

A while back, we asked you to submit your questions about Microsoft’s new Office 2011 suite. We’ve answered your questions about Excel and Outlook; now here are answers for Word 2011. I think the ...