Silverlight, the rich-media technology that Microsoft Corp. trotted out last week, isn’t the company’s only attack on Adobe Systems Inc.’s multimedia dominance. In addition to Silverlight, touted as a ...

The XML Paper Specification was developed by Microsoft and ECMA International and released in 2006. XPS offers an open standard for creating, editing, processing and printing fixed-layout documents.

Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification (XPS) alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, ...

There’s no doubt about it: Adobe’s Portable Document Format better known as PDF is a choice tool for digital document delivery. Some might say that it’s the tool for delivering complex documents to ...

Microsoft has announced that it has chartered a new Technical Committee to submit a new standard to the standards-setting body Ecma International. The would-be standard involves "creating an XML-based ...

Submitted to ISO, the International Standards Organization, for inclusion, it's received approval and been redubbed ISO 320000. In the voting, Russia abstained and France voted against inclusion. The ...