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 ...

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 an ongoing dispute over the use of XML in Word, Microsoft called the claim by Canadian developer i4i that it plotted to drive the company out of business "distorted," and "a breathless tale ...

You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled. … i4i alleges Microsoft willingly violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) on a method for reading XML.

Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office ...

The Developer tab in Microsoft Office unlocks a bunch of cool features. Here's how to enable it.

Redmond rebuts claims that it met with i4i only to steal its XML technology; Microsoft wants a new trial, at minimum, calling the verdict a 'miscarriage of justice' ...