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 think of file converters, chances are you picture clunky software or websites with dated interfaces, limited format support, and nagging upsells that make you wonder if it’s even worth the ...

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 ...

As a part of using our Windows PC for work and personal uses, we come across files of different formats. Each format distinguishes the file from another in the way it works. XFDL is one such format we ...

That said, if you do manage files on your Android phone, you'll quickly realize that most Android file managers are quite limited in functionality. Open source software may not always be the best ...

Kayode Oluwatayo is an Evergreen Author at Android Police. He covers how-to guides and detailed explainers about Android, smartphones, apps, and various tech topics. With almost half a decade of ...

Any business looking for a cost-effective alternative to the Microsoft Office suite may do well to look into the open-source, free-to-download Apache OpenOffice. The suite includes a robust array of ...

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 ...

If you've been accustomed to opening files from newer versions of Microsoft Word in older versions of the software, the error messages you see when you try to open ...

What if the file formats we use to save documents aren't supported by future products? Could that cause a kind of corporate Alzheimer's, threatening our ability to recall critical documents?

According to Microsoft, the upcoming version of Office (Office 12, for now) will make use of XML as the default file formats for the big three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While full details on ...

Select multiple files, right click on one of them and select Open. Or hit enter. It just depends on the registry entries for the file type whether they can be 'opened' more than one at a time. Oh, and ...