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• Article | 16/03/2010 Oracle loses XML co-inventor to Google

  One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google.
• Article | 9/02/2010 OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study

  Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the N...
• Article | 14/01/2010 Retailers still selling Word with custom XML

  Microsoft today said that retailers can continue to sell unmodified versions of Word 2007, even though a court order that required the company to remo...
• Article | 11/12/2009 JSON data interchange format gets standards blessing

  An up-and-coming lightweight data interchange format for Web applications, considered by a growing number of people to be an alternative to XML, has g...
• Article | 6/10/2009 QuickStudy: Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)

  XBRL is a version of XML defined to meet the requirements of business and financial information. With XBRL, unique identifying tags are applied to fin...
• Article | 2/10/2009 IBM developerWorks turns 10

  IBM this week is marking the 10th anniversary of its IBM developerWorks Web site, which features resources for software developers and IT professional...
• Article | 4/09/2009 Microsoft gets reprieve in Word case

  An appeals court has granted Microsoft's request to put off an injunction that could have forced it to stop selling its Microsoft Word software next m...
• Article | 27/08/2009 Microsoft: Word patent ruling, injunction 'miscarriage of justice'

  Microsoft Corp.'s lawyers late yesterday said the verdict that awarded a Canadian developer nearly $300 million in damages and resulted in an impendin...
• Article | 18/08/2009 Microsoft planned to bury XML developer, says federal judge

  Microsoft knew of the patent held by i4i as early as 2001, but instead set out to make the Canadian developer's software "obsolete" by adding a featur...
• Article | 22/05/2009 Jury orders Microsoft to pay $200 million in patent dispute

  A jury in Texas has ordered Microsoft to pay a Toronto software company US$200 million for patent infringement involving several of its software produ...
• Article | 19/05/2009 Microsoft-led forum yields tools for OOXML interoperability

  A German organization plans to build a tool to help developers test whether software they're developing can support documents compatible with the late...