Standards battles tend to be all about politics and politicking, as the increasingly heated Open Document Format (ODF) vs. Office Open XML (OOXL) file-format contest proves. For those who'd rather not ...

Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues — but Microsoft refuses to admit that ODF has won the document ...

A group that was set up to promote the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support of that file format in favor of a set of specifications developed by the World Wide ...

Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format.

It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful ...

Have you ever received a word document in email, only to find that it cannot be opened or edited by your version of the MS Office? Or perhaps you want to open a paper you wrote in 1996, only to find ...

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains “more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than an objective technology selection” by users, according to a report released Monday by analysts at Burton Group ...

Anyone wondering why Microsoft is on the open source warpath need look no further than Norway's recent decision to mandatory government use of the Open Document Format (ODF) for an explanation. While ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2006--Alfresco Software Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced full Open Document Format (ODF) support ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default — but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...

On 1 May 2005, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) recognized the Open Document Format (ODF) as the standard for an open source file format for office ...

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