MPX Microsoft Project File Exchange Format is a

file format A file format is a Computer standard, standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary format, pr ...

developed by

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which was introduced with Microsoft Project 4.0 (1994) for sharing

project data A project is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular goal. An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of even ...

with other

project management application Project management software (PMS) has the capacity to help plan, organize, and manage resource tools and develop resource estimates. Depending on the sophistication of the software, it can manage estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control ...

s. It was adopted by other

project management Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...

applications, such as Primavera Project Planner and

Sciforma Sciforma, previously named PSNext, is an enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software developed by Sciforma Corporation. Sciforma Corporation is an American software company based in San Jose, California. It is a Java (programming ...

. Microsoft discontinued the ability to save in the MPX format with Microsoft Project 2000, but the ability to read the MPX format is supported up to Microsoft Project 2010.

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Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mpx Microsoft Project Exchange File Format Computer file formats