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Belgian Government Chooses OpenDocument
Talkback If MS really supports XML, it could easily choose to support OpenDocument. If that claim is true then MS Office more or less already supports OpenDocument. Furthermore, it does not cost MS anything to use OpenDocument, the standard is freely...
[June 24, 2006, 13:47]
Belgian Government Chooses OpenDocument
Talkback I am glad to hear of the support for the OpenDocument format. Files may be distributed not just within an organisation.between computers on different platforms and also between organisations (private, government and NGO), perhaps even between...
[June 26, 2006, 19:56]
Workplace Gets OpenDocument Support
News IBM plans to support early next year the OpenDocument format in its desktop software, a product the company intends to market aggressively in developing countries. But the forthcoming Workplace products will be the first to support OpenDocument, a...
[December 5, 2005, 8:40]
Group Launched To Promote OpenDocument In Government
News Despite the current lack of government support, Updegrove seemed positive about the impact the alliance could have on public sector organisations that are considering a move to OpenDocument. Updegrove claimed that such support is even more...
[March 6, 2006, 16:30]
Bottom Line: No Featureful Implementations Of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument
Talkback Numerous governments have adopted ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument as their national standards and procurement specifications and Microsoft has committed to conforming ISO/IEC:29500 Office Open XML support in MS Office.
[May 6, 2008, 9:39]
Belgian Government Chooses OpenDocument
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is to be the standard format for exchanging documents within the Belgian government. The latter may be the simpler task, as the OpenDocument Foundation is already working on a plug-in for Microsoft Office that would...
[June 23, 2006, 11:40]
Massachusetts May Embrace Microsoft Office
News Several government customers, particularly in Europe, have added OpenDocument to their list of approved standards or have started migrations to Microsoft Office alternatives that use OpenDocument. Because no applications that support OpenDocument...
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
Microsoft Plans OpenDocument Translator
News Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, OpenDocument has emerged as an alternative with significant vendor backing and high-profile government customers in Massachusetts and Belgium.
[July 6, 2006, 10:15]
Legal Worries Led Massachusetts To Open Standards
Talkback Having to support OpenDocument or else lose a government customer is the direct consequence of their failure to do so. It's not even that they wouldn't support OpenDocument. Microsoft made the decision themselves.
[September 6, 2005, 14:34]
Google Joins OpenDocument Group
News Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, the XML-based OpenDocument Format has emerged as an alternative with backing from IBM, Sun, and others, as well as high-profile government customers in Massachusetts and Belgium.
[July 13, 2006, 8:45]
Massachusetts Continues OpenDocument Debate
News The state's endorsement of OpenDocument, a standard created by several vendors and rubber stamped by standards body OASIS, has been hailed as a way to ensure access to electronic documents for many years, particularly for government customers.
[December 15, 2005, 9:05]
Massachusetts Finalises Open Standards Proposal
News The move to adopt OpenDocument shuts Microsoft out of the state's procurement process because the software giant, which dominates the office application market, has said it does not intend to support the OpenDocument format.
[September 26, 2005, 11:50]
ISO Approval 'unlikely For Microsoft Open XML'
News The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is unlikely to adopt Microsoft Office Open XML format, now that it has approved the OpenDocument Format (ODF), according to analyst group Gartner.
[May 16, 2006, 12:55]
Massachusetts Picks New CIO
News The policy is also a potential blow to Microsoft, the dominant supplier of desktop applications, because Microsoft does not intend to natively support OpenDocument in Office 12, which is due for release in the second half of the year.
[January 31, 2006, 16:10]
Microsoft Throws Governments A Standardisation Bone
News OpenDocument formats in Office 12 through third-party products rather than native file format support. OpenDocument. OpenDocument is developed by a multiparty standards organisation, rather than a single company, according to state officials.
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
Microsoft Launches OOXML Drive In Philippines
News Most OOXML detractors support the OpenDocument Format (ODF), which is itself already ISO-certified. Representatives from both Microsoft and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), in a briefing last week, said they will hold...
[November 15, 2007, 11:53]
Legal Worries Led Massachusetts To Open Standards
News Microsoft lashed out against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts last week for its proposed plan to support only OpenDocument and PDF file formats for use by state employees in the future. Massachusetts agencies have until 1 January, 2007, to install...
[September 5, 2005, 17:40]
Massachusetts Officials Clash Over Move To OpenDocument
News Office because the dominant supplier of productivity software does not support OpenDocument at this point. Massachusetts state officials have criticised a decision to adopt OpenDocument as a standard, casting doubt over a closely watched initiative.
[November 2, 2005, 9:25]
Government Shows Caution On Open Standards
News The statement forms part of Number 10's response to a petition calling on the government to promote the use of the OpenDocument Format in government. The government has pledged its support for open standards and interoperability through its e...
[June 11, 2007, 15:45]
ODF Summit Joins Open Source Activists
News Big guns in the software industry are massing behind OpenDocument as government customers show more interest in open source alternatives to Although few products incorporate support for OpenDocument right now, O'Grady expects that more...
[November 10, 2005, 14:35]
