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 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 ...

You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled. … i4i alleges Microsoft willingly violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) on a method for reading XML.

Mary provides a beginner's walkthrough of new functionality for using XML, allowing you to separate the data in a document or worksheet from its presentation in Word 2003 and Excel 2003.

Microsoft already has a patch for the patent problem in Word and is telling U.S. OEMs to apply it, removing the ability to strip out custom XML from files before allowing users to edit them.

Version 1.0 of the add-in was released in May 2008 for Microsoft Office Word 2007, Word 2003, and Word XP. Since the project is open source, the Open XML to DAISY XML Translator source code is ...

Convert SVG icons to Shapes using Microsoft Word SVG is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics that supports interactivity and animation.