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LibreOffice 3.5

LibreOffice continues to improve, but it's still playing catch-up to Microsoft Office, and there's no sign of a vision that would make it a significant competitor on anything but price. Read more

21 February, 2012 by Mary Branscombe

Microsoft and IBM push OData standardisation

...over two other standards. At the time, IBM was backing Sun's OpenDocument Format (ODF), which is used in OpenOffice and was developed within OASIS... Read more

25 May, 2012

EU goes global for procurement standards

Public-sector procurement documents will for the first time be allowed to reference web standards and other standards not developed by EU agencies or the biggest, slowest-moving international standards agencies Read more

2 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Open standards 'essential to Europe's IT future'

...of product", in "an environment favourable to free, undistorted competition", Carayon said. OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an open standard, published by OASIS... Read more

6 October, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Europe can't wait for Microsoft to play ODF catch up

The European Commission is backpedalling on the Open Document Format because of Microsoft's promises on OpenXML. Now is no time to let up on the move to proper open standards Read more

8 May, 2006 by Leader

Microsoft reveals how Office 2007 will support ODF

...published detailed guidelines on how it plans to implement support for the OpenDocument Format in Office 2007. The guidelines are the latest step towards Microsoft... Read more

17 December, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

Oasis forms ODF committee

...of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) has formed a committee to promote the OpenDocument Format standard. The ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) committee will comprise representatives... Read more

4 November, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft OOXML finds favour in Malaysia

...The Malaysian government may appear to favour the use of the ODF (OpenDocument Format), with plans to adopt the standard in its ICT deployment, but... Read more

16 January, 2008 by Lee Min Keong

Microsoft's mixed messages over ODF

...Microsoft has no plans to support OpenDocument Format in its own applications by default, despite the fact it has... Read more

18 May, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft attacks IBM over ODF

Microsoft has severely criticised IBM, saying the company is pushing the OpenDocument Format standard to the detriment of Microsoft's own Open XML standard... Read more

10 May, 2007 by Tom Espiner

California eyes OpenDocument

California may follow Massachusetts in making the OpenDocument Format the required standard for state agencies. The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is... Read more

1 March, 2007 by Candace Lombardi

ODF Summit joins open source activists

...standards, major companies meet to discuss stepping up their commitment to the OpenDocument format Read more

10 November, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

Sun launches StarOffice 8

...that StarOffice 8 is "the first commercial office suite to use the OpenDocument format", a file format developed by the standards body OASIS. The commonwealth... Read more

27 September, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

ODF supporters hold 'Document Freedom Day'

OpenDocument Format supporters across the world have tried to raise awareness about the... Read more

27 March, 2008 by Liam Tung

Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument

The pioneering decision to embrace the OpenDocument format has been attacked by a state senator, who is worried about... Read more

2 November, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

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