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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 International Organization for Standardization, which oversees files formats and other standards information, published the official specs for the Open Document Format last week. The ODF file ...

Microsoft has pledged to support the ODF file format as well as Adobe's PDF file format in forthcoming versions of it's Office suite expected in the first half of 2009. While this is good news for ...

Convincing customers they have the better technology is the weapon of choice when it comes to winning business battles in high tech First let's make one thing clear. At the highest level, ODF (Open ...

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.

State legislatures in Minnesota and Texas are considering bills calling for the adoption of the Open Document Format for Office Applications, or ODF, as the standard file format for their state ...

In addition to opening its own native .ODF file format, OpenOffice Calc can also open worksheets from other spreadsheet software such as Excel. According to Apache, when working with an Excel sheet in ...

The hi-tech world woke up to news this morning that Microsoft has finally decided to put some wood behind the OpenDocument Format (ODF). I deliberately chose the word wood instead of support even ...

The plug-in, which is not yet publicly available, will be submitted soon to Massachusetts, which is scheduled in January to make use of the standard ODF file format mandatory within state government.