Recent patent applications filed by Microsoft are routine moves and don't reflect a change in the company's position on Extensible Markup Language, according to a spokesman for the software maker. As ...

For insight into how Microsoft plans to drive upgrades of its nearly ubiquitous Office desktop application suite, talk to Jean Paoli. While he doesn't work in Microsoft's Information Worker group, ...

REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 6, 2000 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of the beta specification for XML for Analysis — a new protocol that extends the Microsoft business intelligence strategy to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2002 — In the most significant product launch of the new Microsoft® .NET era, Microsoft Corp. Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today launched Visual Studio® .NET and the ...

Recently, I was searching MSDN for some code examples with XML in .NET. After several failed attempts to find what I was looking for, I used Google to search and found a MSDN site named, "The XML ...

XML to date has largely been an integration developer's game, with major efforts directed at transforming existing corporate data into adhering to the XML standard. But what about the new stuff? How ...

The World Wide Web Consortium has created a working group to develop an XML-based messaging protocol, and the international standards body says it won’t rubber-stamp Microsoft’s Simple Object Access ...

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 ...

Microsoft is patching a dangerous zero-day vulnerability in its XML Core Services being actively targeted by cybercriminals over the last month. A successful attack gives a cybercriminal the ability ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...