QuickStudy: Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
XBRL is a version of XML defined to meet the requirements of business and financial information. With XBRL, unique identifying tags are applied to financial data items.
Google to Microsoft: Support SVG
The SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) specification may be experiencing a renaissance, but it would sure be helpful if Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser supported SVG, a Google official argued at a technical conference on Friday.
Microsoft Betrayed i4i, Say Court Documents
Microsoft marketed i4i's XML software to potential customers even as it planned to drive the small Toronto company out of business by infringing its patent, according to documents i4i filed with an appeals court.
Microsoft stabbed i4i in the back with Word, developer claims
Microsoft marketed Canadian developer i4i's XML software to potential customers even as it planned to drive the small firm out of business by infringing its patent, according to court documents filed with an appeals court.
REST vs. SOAP-based WS-* Web services duel dismissed
There are perceptions afoot of a Web services war pitting SOAP-based WS-* services against REST services. But an official at Microsoft, which has spearheaded development of WS-* specifications, does not see the situation as being all that much of a conflict.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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