Recent patent applications filed by Microsoft are routine moves and don't reflect a change in the company's position on Extensible Markup Language, according to a spokesman for the software maker. As ...

For insight into how Microsoft plans to drive upgrades of its nearly ubiquitous Office desktop application suite, talk to Jean Paoli. While he doesn't work in Microsoft's Information Worker group, ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2002 — In the most significant product launch of the new Microsoft® .NET era, Microsoft Corp. Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today launched Visual Studio® .NET and the ...

XML to date has largely been an integration developer's game, with major efforts directed at transforming existing corporate data into adhering to the XML standard. But what about the new stuff? How ...

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 ...

The World Wide Web Consortium has created a working group to develop an XML-based messaging protocol, and the international standards body says it won’t rubber-stamp Microsoft’s Simple Object Access ...

Microsoft today confirmed that it will patch a vulnerability in Windows next week that has been exploited by an increasing number of attacks. Initially, experts wondered whether Microsoft would patch ...

Microsoft is patching a dangerous zero-day vulnerability in its XML Core Services being actively targeted by cybercriminals over the last month. A successful attack gives a cybercriminal the ability ...

Software major Microsoft on Wednesday said that it has won the global international standards designation for its open document format Office Open XML, a file format specification for electronic ...