Tag: XML

Last summer, when U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis ordered Microsoft to permanently shelve Word (and pay a whopping $290 million in damages), some analysts dismissed the ruling as a publicity stunt. Microsoft just received a swift and powerful kick to the groin, though, as the decision has reportedly been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals. According to Engadget, Microsoft only has until ...

If you've ever received an MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document that just won't seem to open, odds are it's because it was created using Office 2007 or 2008 and you're still using an older version of Office. You can tell by looking at the file extension: if there's an x on the end (such as docx. xlsx, pptx) then it's Microsoft's newfangled XML-based file type. If you don't feel like ponying ...

Leonard Davis, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, is putting himself in the headlines by issuing a permanent injunction against Microsoft, prohibiting the company from selling "Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files." That, as all geeks know, includes both Office 2007 and the upcoming Office 2010. The ruling is in reaction to a ...