The votes are in, and Microsoft's Office OpenXML document format has failed to achieve status as a standard in the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) Fast Track process.

After a bitter, year-long fight filled with finger-pointing and muckraking, it's finally over. Microsoft has won its battle to have its Office Open XML document format approved by the International ...

Adobe Systems' portable document format, long a de facto Internet standard, is under fire from competitors looking to muscle in on the electronic document market. Autodesk, the leading maker of ...

Focus on content with the new Pageless option in Google Docs Your email has been sent For many years, the default Google Doc format would have been familiar to anyone who used a typewriter: A ...

A Rich Text Format document, or RTF, is a file type recognized by most word processing applications. While RTF documents support numerous features, those features generally make for larger file sizes, ...

The WordPad program is a simple word processing program that is included with every copy of Windows. Even though Microsoft removed the ability to save a document in the .doc format using WordPad and ...