My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

A standards body known for creating key technologies around XML said Wednesday it has launched an effort to develop a standard file format that would allow office documents such as spreadsheets and ...

A group of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new standard to handle desktop application documents. Members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured ...