When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer. Indeed, there's plenty of overlap between ...

Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards Organization said Tuesday.

Microsoft’s attempts to compete for state contracts took a hit in early September when it failed to win an open standards designation from a major international standards body for a file format used ...