Microsoft Joins XML Specification Committee for Financials
M. Reed - May 2, 2000

Event Summary

In April Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that through its membership on the international Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) Project Committee, it is helping to develop and launch XBRL. XBRL is a free, new Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based specification that uses accepted financial reporting standards and practices to translate financial reports across all software and technologies, including the Internet...