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Microsoft announces XDocs details

Microsoft on Monday plans to unveil more details on XDocs, its controversial electronic forms software. The software giant is set to announce... Read more

10 February, 2003 by David Becker

Microsoft, Adobe in document showdown?

...edge of Adobe's market. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced plans for XDocs, an extension of its Office software intended to allow workers to easily... Read more

23 December, 2002 by David Becker

On-form Microsoft attacks Adobe

Investors and analysts were divided Wednesday over how Microsoft's new XDocs electronic-forms software would affect Adobe Systems, which has identified online forms... Read more

10 October, 2002 by David Becker

InfoPath adds complexity to Office

Microsoft is set to launch the latest beta of Office complete with the InfoPath application, which analysts say is much more complex than the other applications Read more

6 March, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

W3C recommends online forms standard

...clash over rival approaches to Web forms. Microsoft recently announced plans for XDocs, a forms product that would work with its Office suite. XDocs is... Read more

13 November, 2002 by Margaret Kane

Acrobat: No longer written on stone

...printed material. The drive gained new attention last week, after Microsoft unveiled xDocs, an initiative intended to merge data from online forms with back-end... Read more

18 October, 2002 by David Becker

New software turns Office into collaboration tool

...the desktop software. Ballmer is expected to announce the product, code-named XDocs, at Gartner's Symposium and ITExpo in Orlando, Florida. XDocs is intended... Read more

9 October, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Microsoft renames XDocs

Bye-bye XDocs, hello InfoPath Microsoft has today annnounced that XDocs, its controversial electronic forms... Read more

10 February, 2003 by David Becker

W3C to combine web specs

DOM and XPath buddy up Read more

1 April, 2003 by Paul Festa

Web forms standard makes slow progress

...Microsoft has its own XML-based forms technology: InfoPath, formerly known as XDocs. "Microsoft has its own home-grown lingo that does basically what XForms... Read more

5 August, 2003 by Paul Festa

Adobe e-form will target Microsoft

...company plans to introduce in a few months. InfoPath, formerly code-named XDocs, designs XML-based forms and ties them in to back-end software... Read more

15 July, 2003 by David Becker

Adobe takes PDF to the office

New versions of Acrobat are aimed at turning the PDF format into a standard tool for collaborating on office documents Read more

7 April, 2003 by John Borland

Could application servers be overkill?

...of which O'Toole speaks sounds much like Microsoft's pitch for XDocs. The difference, however, is that the document mentality applies to everything -- not... Read more

2 April, 2003 by David Berlind

Microsoft pulls early Office 2003 beta

...of short notes as opposed to long multipart documents. InfoPath, code-named XDocs, uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) to pull together disparate pieces of information... Read more

20 February, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

Office 11 beta due next month

...Only a small number of testers were given InfoPath, formerly code-named XDocs, with Beta 1. Microsoft has not finalised bundling plans for OneNote or... Read more

13 February, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

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