Sun Offers ODF Translator For Microsoft Office
News OpenOffice is the free open-source office suite that uses OpenDocument Format (ODF), a standard XML-based format adopted by several private companies and government organisations. Microsoft released its own ODF document translator for Word in early...
[February 8, 2007, 8:53]
Microsoft OOXML Finds Favour In Malaysia
News While the battle between proponents of ODF and OOXML rages on, Microsoft is making some headway persuading several strategic organisations in Malaysia to adopt OOXML. The Malaysian government may appear to favour the use of the ODF (OpenDocument...
[January 16, 2008, 10:48]
OpenOffice May Support OOXML
News We adopted ODF as our default document standard in response to pressures from the marketplace, particularly governments and public administrations," said McCreesh on Wednesday. Barring any formal complaints to ISO by the national standards bodies...
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
California Eyes OpenDocument
News After complaints from disability-rights groups, the state also adopted ODF plug-ins, programs for making ODF compatible with applications usable by disabled people. The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is a standard XML-based file format used by...
[March 1, 2007, 8:41]
Open Standards 'essential To Europe's IT Future'
News OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an open standard, published by OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), for office software to save documents such as spreadsheets, databases and text...
[October 6, 2006, 14:35]
Very Nice Albert
Talkback If they do, OOXML will achieve titular parity with ODF in the eyes of legislators around the world, most of whom will lack the existing knowledge and the time and interest to learn whether there would still be a reason to prefer products that...
[February 26, 2008, 20:04]
OpenOffice.org 2.2 Released
News Open Document Format (ODF), the standard that supports OpenOffice, was adopted as an ISO (International Organisation of Standardisation) standard in May, effectively making it a global open standard. OpenOffice has proven popular this month, with...
[April 3, 2007, 17:31]
Standards Expert Defends OOXML Fast-track Bid
News OOXML is the rival document standard to the OpenDocument Format (ODF), which is already ISO-certified and has been championed by open-source vendors and IT giants such as IBM and Sun. Notwithstanding the outcome of the final ISO vote on OOXML...
[March 25, 2008, 11:51]
Bottom Line: No Featureful Implementations Of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument
Talkback Those facts set up the interesting possibility that Microsoft will have the only office suite that writes to an approved ISO/IEC standard and that the full-featured ODF editors remain legally ineligible for government procurement specifications...
[May 6, 2008, 9:39]
OOXML Interop Is Abysmal
Talkback The same phenomenon is seen with ODF. One huge problem with both OOXML and ODF is that neither specifies an interoperability framework. But ODF and OOXML eschew such well understood methodology for achieving interoperability despite feature...
[February 29, 2008, 18:03]
Durusau's Proposal Is Preposterous
Talkback I think this is correctly identified also by Partick Durusau of the ODF TC (one of the few non Sun/IBM voting members) who has made a case in these recent weeks for having these two standards together.
[February 29, 2008, 18:25]
OpenDocument Threat Emerges In Massachusetts
News In a closely watched move, the IT Division of Massachusetts finalised a policy last month that mandates that products used by agencies in the executive branch comply with the OpenDocument standard, which is also called the Open Document Format for...
[November 3, 2005, 16:05]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment Tineke Egyedi, president of the European Academy for Standardisation, is critical of OOXML being made a standard when ODF exists already, and she believes duplicative standards conflict with WTO rules http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?
[March 30, 2008, 16:52]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment Tineke Egyedi, president of the European Academy for Standardisation, is critical of OOXML being made a standard when ODF exists already, and she believes duplicative standards conflict with WTO rules http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?
[March 30, 2008, 16:39]
Report Backs PDF Variant For Long-term Archiving
News Although the report addresses many rival document formats, including the OpenDocument Format (ODF), it highlights two Microsoft formats in its conclusion as being worth monitoring in the future: the XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Office Open...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
ODF 1.1 Is Indeed An International Standard
Talkback An "international standard" is defined, in ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004, definition 3.2.1.1, as "[A] standard that is adopted by an international standardizing/standards organization and made available to the public.
[May 22, 2008, 11:36]
