Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and OpenDocument Format (ODF) for Office ...

Here’s how to translate text from one language to another in Outlook, Word, and Excel — and how to transform spoken words into real-time captions in another language with PowerPoint. I once worked for ...

A Microsoft-sponsored initiative last week officially released a plug-in that converts the software vendor's Open XML (extensible markup language) file formats in Word to OpenDocument Format (ODF).

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When it comes to translation apps, Google Translate is among the best out there, especially with its relatively recent addition of Word Lens instant video translations. So can Microsoft knock it off ...

Microsoft today launched its Bing Translator app for Windows (including Windows RT). We don’t usually write all that much about Windows apps, and translation apps aren’t exactly new, either, but it’s ...

Gurdeep Pall was confident Skype’s automatic translation program would work. But as Microsoft’s corporate vice president in charge of Skype prepared to hold the first public demonstration of the ...