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Office 2007 file formats not yet accessible to all
News Microsoft has pledged to make its new Office 2007 file formats accessible within the company's other products, but the timeline for that support varies widely. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows Mobile unit said in an email on Tuesday that its PocketPC...
[December 6, 2006, 8:54]
CES: DVD formats face off
News The two groups striving to make their respective formats the standard for rewritable DVDs used this week's Consumer Electronics Show as an opportunity to demonstrate their progress. At the Recordable DVD Council event Wednesday, various members...
[January 11, 2002, 8:31]
Music debate, not about formats anymore
News BMG Entertainment -- home of Whitney Houston and TLC -- believes the emerging formats will have to live together. One music industry insider predicts the clamour over formats will become irrelevant as the market becomes saturated with devices like...
[April 29, 1999, 6:06]
LG drive writes to all DVD formats
News As the debate continues over which DVD rewritable format is best, LG has launched what it claims to be the first drive to support all three formats: DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. The key to the struggle between the formats, said O'Donovan, will be...
[August 8, 2003, 16:45]
Office 2003 keeps a lock on XML file formats
News A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers will not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services and an opportunity to unlock...
[April 14, 2003, 10:16]
Windows to embrace multiple DVD formats
News Microsoft is expanding its involvement in the rewritable DVD market, announcing on Thursday that future versions of Windows will support all major formats. At the very least, the support for the formats in Windows will mean that people won't have...
[May 9, 2003, 15:58]
DVD formats at a glance
News DVD RAM The second version of DVD-RAM, which has been ratified by the DVD Forum, has a capacity of 4.7Gbytes. This format, supported by Panasonic, is at a disadvantage as double sided discs come in sealed cartridges.
[November 29, 1999, 16:28]
Office 2003 update blocks older file formats
News Office 2003 Service Pack 3, which was made available in September, blocks a lengthy list of word-processing file formats, including Word 6.0 and Word 97 for Windows and Word 2004 for Macintosh. The older file formats that are now blocked are in...
[January 3, 2008, 12:18]
Office 12 to 'bring XML to the masses'
News Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. Company officials said the move to replace Microsoft's...
[June 2, 2005, 9:15]
Sony debuts dual-layer DVD burners
News Sony announced on Tuesday two new drives supporting dual-layer discs for DVD recordable formats, enabling storage of 8.5GB of data. The drives are designed to support the widest range of DVD and CD formats on the market.
[May 4, 2005, 9:55]
AltaVista goes multimedia
News The AV Photo & Media finder will let users scan for audio formats including MP3, RealAudio, WAV, and AU and video formats including RealVideo, QuickTime, ASF, MPEG, and AVI. The results will produce thumbnail sketches and brief descriptions of the...
[March 30, 1999, 14:13]
Microsoft picks sides in DVD war
News Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended to make the storage devices as easy to use as current CD burners and floppy drives.
[April 11, 2002, 8:22]
Blu-ray and HD DVD face-off in Vegas
News The battle over next-generation DVD formats heated up on Thursday as groups supporting two incompatible and competing technologies introduced new partners and revealed further details of what consumers and manufacturers can expect to see from them...
[January 7, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft to release ODF translator for Word
News A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Friday to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Microsoft opens up Office 2003 XML
News Microsoft on Monday said it will license the XML-based file formats used in the latest edition of its Office applications on a royalty-free basis. The Danish government is already using the XML schema in a project to standardise document formats to...
[November 17, 2003, 16:20]
Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
News Microsoft is expanding its repertoire of document formats. The company on Monday is expected to announce that it is sponsoring an open-source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML — a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft...
[May 21, 2007, 10:34]
In DVD war, Sony takes sides - both
News Hoping to ease consumer concerns over a confusing DVD standards battle, Sony said Monday it will support the two leading formats in a new line of drives. DVD recording is gradually catching on with consumers, but confusion over the two leading...
[September 10, 2002, 7:53]
iDefense launches format testing kit
News New tools could help bug hunters find vulnerabilities in popular file formats, such as the JPEG and GIF image formats. Flaws in how applications handle those file formats are drawing interest among security researchers, according to speakers at the...
[July 29, 2005, 16:50]
Google Docs gets .docx and .xlsx support
News Google on Monday announced that Google Docs now supports .docx and .xlsx, two file formats found in nearly every modern-day word processor or spreadsheet editor. Previously, when trying to import either of these formats into Google Docs, the...
[June 2, 2009, 9:30]
Massachusetts may embrace Microsoft Office
News Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats. If accepted, the policy update would list Office Open XML as acceptable "open formats" for use by executive-branch state agencies.
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
