Microsoft Announces XDocs Details
News Microsoft on Monday plans to unveil more details on XDocs, its controversial electronic forms software. The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.
[February 10, 2003, 13:28]
On-form Microsoft Attacks Adobe
News Investors and analysts were divided Wednesday over how Microsoft's new XDocs electronic-forms software would affect Adobe Systems, which has identified online forms as a significant new business direction.
[October 10, 2002, 8:42]
New Software Turns Office Into Collaboration Tool
News Microsoft hopes XDocs will make Office more attractive to corporate buyers, in turn increasing sales of it and the Windows XP operating system. Ballmer is expected to announce the product, code-named XDocs, at Gartner's Symposium and ITExpo in...
[October 9, 2002, 7:55]
Microsoft, Adobe In Document Showdown?
News Earlier this year, Microsoft announced plans for XDocs, an extension of its Office software intended to allow workers to easily create basic online forms. They now mostly see XDocs as potential competition for only part of Adobe's business.
[December 23, 2002, 14:38]
W3C Recommends Online Forms Standard
News Microsoft recently announced plans for XDocs, a forms product that would work with its Office suite. XDocs is also based on XML and is supposed to help companies design and use forms that can link desktop documents to back-end data sources.
[November 13, 2002, 15:50]
Adobe Extends Server Push To Acrobat
News This would give it a long lead over Microsoft, which last week announced plans for a 2003 release of XDocs, electronic forms software based on its Office desktop applications. Duhl said the XDocs salvo may have influenced the timing of Adobe's new...
[October 21, 2002, 9:04]
Acrobat: No Longer Written On Stone
News The drive gained new attention last week, after Microsoft unveiled xDocs, an initiative intended to merge data from online forms with back-end business software. Adobe Systems' Acrobat software and the PDF documents it creates are often referred to...
[October 18, 2002, 8:25]
Office 11 Beta Due Next Month
News Only a small number of testers were given InfoPath, formerly code-named XDocs, with Beta 1. Microsoft is expected to release a second test version of its Office desktop application software next month.
[February 13, 2003, 10:16]
Microsoft Pulls Early Office 2003 Beta
News InfoPath, code-named XDocs, uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) to pull together disparate pieces of information from Office documents into a form-like document. The Redmond, Washington-based company posted Office 2003 Beta 2 on its Microsoft...
[February 20, 2003, 7:32]
Adobe E-form Will Target Microsoft
News InfoPath, formerly code-named XDocs, designs XML-based forms and ties them in to back-end software to automate data exchange and delivery. Publishing-software giant Adobe Systems plans to announce a new electronic forms application that appears to...
[July 15, 2003, 9:23]
Web Forms Standard Makes Slow Progress
News That's because Microsoft has its own XML-based forms technology: InfoPath, formerly known as XDocs. The Web's leading standards organisation has nudged forward its specification for creating Web forms after a long delay in the standards process.
[August 5, 2003, 15:10]
