XPS (XML Paper Specification), which has been codenamed "Metro," is Microsoft's answer to Adobe's PDF: an electronic document format that can be printed without needing the actual application which ...

Microsoft is beginning to release more details of the next generation of its productivity software, codenamed Office 12, emphasizing tools for greater collaboration, information discovery and content ...

Microsoft is preparing another round of price increases for its commercial Office subscriptions, tightening the screws on business software budgets that are already under pressure. The company is ...

Microsoft late Wednesday released the first test version of Office 12, the next incarnation of its ubiquitous desktop suite. The company said it is offering up the Beta 1 code to about 10,000 ...

Even as the company's top dogs last week talked up the newly shipping 64-bit Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, insiders confirmed plans for a 64-bit version of Office 12, the successor to Office ...

Users will soon be able to customize Office to their heart's content -- and save documents to several new file formats. With Office 12, Microsoft seems determined to show what a high-powered fat ...

Microsoft Thursday is set to unveil its long-awaited branding, packaging and pricing for the next version of Office, which is expected to be available later this year. As widely expected, the product, ...