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 ...

A recently granted patent, however, reveals that the entire effort took place while Microsoft had a patent pending that covers nearly any use of XML for storing word processing documents.

Microsoft has now released the plug-in, which adds a "Save as DAISY XML" option to Microsoft Office Word 2007, Word 2003 and Word XP.

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.

In 2001, Microsoft employees involved in the XML for Word development team were reportedly forwarding e-mails to each other from i4i that discussed the patent.

Patent, 5,787,449, is about XML editing of a word processed document. How that could be worth $98 per copy of Word is beyond me.

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 ...

The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an ...

The Open XML Translator allows Microsoft Word documents based on Open XML to be translated into ODF and vice versa, Matusow said. Once downloaded, it can be used as a plug-in for Microsoft Office ...

Trying to get into the topic-based XML authoring game? Learn from the mistakes and experience of others. A complimentary webinar on migrating content from Word to XML takes place Thursday, August ...

Microsoft and the Digital Accessible Information System consortium plan to cooperate on a tool to make Open XML documents accessible to users with print disabilities.