The standardization organization OASIS has ratified ODF 1.4. The open document format offers some new features for office ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007. The move follows charges from the ODF Alliance and the British Educational Communications ...

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 ...

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Microsoft has demonstrated support for the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 standard in a technical preview of the forthcoming Office 15 productivity suite, and plans to release a beta version with the ...

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 ...