The time for keeping your intellectual property in proprietary file formats is over, says Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Scott McNealy. In a perfect world, you’d be able to open any e-mail attachment, read ...

When you see the Photos can’t open this file because the format is unsupported or the file is corrupted, you can fix it in the following ways. Make sure the file format is supported Check if the file ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim Thatcher ...

With the recently released 2013 versions of iWork for OS X and iOS, syncing documents across Macs, iOS devices and even iWork for iCloud is now a seamless transparent process: Open and edit a document ...

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Microsoft announced yesterday that it is expanding the list of file formats that will be supported by a future update to its Office productivity suite. With the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2, ...

Prusa encourages you to upload models in 3MF even if you also add an STL copy for people who haven’t made the switch yet. So will you start using 3MF? Or are you already? The file format is open, they ...

Debates in the aftermath of the Google Spreadsheet announcement have climbed the mountains and traversed the valleys of Google's supposed master plan. They've covered the Google vs. Microsoft gorge, ...

New York has become the latest state government to introduce legislation concerning open document formats even as bills in other states are being voted down. New York has become the latest state ...

Ankush khandelwal asked about compatibility issues between files created in different versions of Microsoft Office–specifically the big changes in file format that came with Office 2007. With Office ...