Is Microsoft cozying up to OpenDoc after all? Microsoft is now sponsoring an open source project to convert Office docs to OpenDocument format, News.com reports. Microsoft today launched the Open XML ...

The potential usefulness of automatic computerized translation was recognized by the very first AI researchers in the 1950s. But it wasn’t until new algorithms emerged in the 1980s and 1990s that the ...

The technology industry is a knowledge intensive industry. Every leading technology company has to pour huge funds in research and development (or R&D) to stay competitive and ahead of its peers.

Novell quietly announced Monday it is shipping an Office OpenXML/Open Document Format translator that works with its own edition of the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite. The delivery was ...

Windows only: Microsoft has a new add-on for Office 2003 and 2007 that sets Microsoft Translator—used in the Live Search service—as a more robust and multi-language translator than the WorldLingo ...

Everyone knows how you can use Babel Fish and Google Translate to convert text from English to Dutch or Polish to English. But did you know there's a translator built right into Microsoft Office?

Microsoft is on a cross-platform app bender. This week the company has been updating apps, adding new features to Outlook, launching new services for Office 365, and bringing apps and services to ...

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source ...

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