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opendocument format
Talkback When reviewing office suites, please provide detailed information on opendocument format compatibility, which is increasingly important, and will hopefully minimise all these tedious file-format incompatibilites in future.
[November 29, 2006, 14:35]
opendocument format
Talkback There is no mention in this news item about OpenDocument compatibility: do you know what the status is?
[January 11, 2007, 9:19]
Office 2007 will support OOXML's biggest rival, the OpenDocument Format (OD
Talkback As I understand it, the problem lies in having to rewrite too much code in office 2007 to make ooxml compatible. I guess M$ was unaware of this problem prior to the vote by the ISO. Makes the ISO look like a M$ shill, or maybe money was slipped...
[May 28, 2008, 14:19]
Mobile Office for UIQ3
Downloads Mobile Office is an Office suite for the new OpenDocument format. With MobileOffice, you can now read (and later on edit and create) your files also on your mobile and have them always with you.The OpenDocument format is also used by other well...
[January 27, 2007, 6:00]
Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Talkback To solve this problem, people in the tech community would have to be vigilant about inspecting any OpenDocument format that Microsoft winds up supporting, seeing if there are any extensions or inconsistent standards support, and, if there are...
[October 8, 2005, 18:57]
Mobile Office for S60 3rd Edition
Downloads Mobile Office is an Office suite for the new OpenDocument format. With MobileOffice, you can now read (and later on edit and create) your files also on your mobile and have them always with you.The OpenDocument format is also used by other well...
[September 24, 2006, 8:00]
Massachusetts finalises open standards proposal
News The commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalised its decision to standardise desktop applications on OpenDocument, a format not supported by Microsoft Office. As it proposed late last month before a comment period, Massachusetts has decided to use...
[September 26, 2005, 11:50]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The International Organization for Standardization's OpenDocument Format standard is broken and needs to be mended, according to an expert who claims to have carried out tests on the format. Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
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. At a press conference in Delhi, IBM executives plan to announce on Monday that the...
[December 5, 2005, 8:40]
Sun attacks Microsoft's 'open' efforts
News Speaking to a group of reporters, Sun's top open source executive said that a format like OpenDocument is needed to prevent a permanent condition of what he dubbed "corporate Alzheimer's". Sun trotted out Phipps, XML guru Tim Bray and several other...
[December 15, 2005, 8:20]
Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
Talkback I'm sick of Microsoft whining that the OpenDocument format isn't good enough. Fact is that Microsoft had every opportunity to contribute to the OpenDocument format to make sure that it was "Good Enough (TM)" but instead they were the only member of...
[September 7, 2005, 13:34]
Microsoft reveals how Office 2007 will support ODF
News Microsoft has 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's planned implementation of the Oasis OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.1...
[December 17, 2008, 15:49]
Google joins OpenDocument group
News Google has joined a group that is promoting an OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard that allows people to open documents regardless of the application they were created in. Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, the XML...
[July 13, 2006, 8:45]
Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News Novell has said there is no end in sight to the continuing feud between supporters of OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's Office Open XML. Microsoft has created its own proprietary document format, Office Open XML (OOXML), as a rival to the...
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
IBM joins OpenOffice.org community
News IBM on Monday joined the OpenOffice.org community, providing a boost to supporters of the OpenDocument Format. But equally important is IBM's future commitment to package and distribute new works that leverage OpenOffice.org technology supporting...
[September 10, 2007, 12:48]
Massachusetts ODF plan will use Office plug-in
News Massachusetts will begin using OpenDocument as the default document format later this year as planned, but it will be sticking with Microsoft Office in the near term, the state's top technology executive said.
[August 25, 2006, 17:35]
OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about ISO certification
News The recently formed OpenDocument Format Alliance has expressed its confidence that the file format will be approved by International Organisation for Standardization next month. The OpenDocument format is supported by a number of productivity...
[April 20, 2006, 12:05]
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]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
News The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the format has been endorsed by international standards groups. According to sources familiar with the issue, Microsoft's drive to get its own file formats...
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
ISO crunch time for OpenDocument
News The OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to OASIS, the standards body that developed the format. So, from the perspective of the European Commission, OASIS' OpenDocument...
[October 18, 2005, 17:45]
