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 ...

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES, December 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open ...

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 ...

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(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications V1.4 as an OASIS ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Microsoft is finally adding support for ODF (Open Document Format for XML) and Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) to its Office productivity suite, the company is expected to announce late Wednesday ...