Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft switched to Office Open XML (OOXML) as the default file formats for its applications. However, the legacy .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint ...

A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption It's been 20 years since the Open ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office ...

Microsoft submitted Open XML, which Office 2007 is based on ... with Open XML can attest to the benefits of this open file format in the areas of file and data management, data recovery ...

It is not exactly clear how this news will affect the file format spat launched by the ... saying that Microsoft's Office Open XML met the state's needs for document storage and interoperability.