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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 Viewer
Downloads OpenDocument Viewer (ODF Viewer) is a cross-platform viewer for OpenDocument text (.odt), spreadsheet (.ods) and presentations (.odp) files. The package is entirely self-contained; everything it needs is included.
[January 18, 2007, 6:00]
OpenDocument threat emerges in Massachusetts
News The Massachusetts Senate has introduced a provision to an economic stimulus bill that endangers a state decision to standardise on the OpenDocument format. The introduction of the amendment follows a hearing on Monday where the chair of a state...
[November 3, 2005, 16:05]
opendocument support?
Talkback Please try to say what the level of opendocument support is when talking about office suites.
[April 21, 2009, 13:50]
OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'
Talkback Of course Microsoft will SAY that they won't support OpenDocument format right up to the moment when they DO. If enough governments STIPULATE that tenders, contracts, etc are drawn up in documents which are in OpenDocument format then businesses...
[October 6, 2005, 11:24]
OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'
Talkback Of course Microsoft will SAY that they won't support OpenDocument format right up to the moment when they DO. If enough governments STIPULATE that tenders, contracts, etc are drawn up in documents which are in OpenDocument format then businesses...
[October 6, 2005, 11:23]
Opendocument support?
Talkback There's no mention of Opendocument support natively or via plugin in this review: do you have any extra information? Thanks
[January 4, 2008, 10:07]
OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'
News A Sun executive said on Thursday the OpenDocument format has the potential to change the world. Now we have the potential to explode the world again, to turn everything inside out again, if we get the widespread use across the office desktops of...
[September 30, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has come under attack from Microsoft, which claims its Office Open XML format has significantly better performance. The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory," Alan Yates...
[May 25, 2006, 12:45]
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 Alliance, which was launched last month to promote the use of the...
[April 20, 2006, 12:05]
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]
Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Talkback > Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS including support for OpenDocument? 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...
[October 8, 2005, 18:57]
Consortium launched to support OpenDocument
Talkback Here is a link to the OpenDocument Fellowship.http://tinyurl.com/7ups4
[October 12, 2005, 12:06]
Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Talkback It seems to me that if a big enough organization wanted OpenDocument support for MS Office, they could write it themselves and release it under a closed-source, free-as-in-beer license. Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for writing a...
[October 7, 2005, 4:58]
IBM backs OpenDocument in Lotus Notes
News IBM has announced an upgrade to Lotus Notes that will include access to office productivity applications and support for the OpenDocument format. These "office productivity editors", as IBM refers to them, all support OpenDocument Format (ODF) files.
[May 17, 2006, 9:45]
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]
Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Talkback There is a very good text about it here: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/why-opendocument-won.html
[October 6, 2005, 22:10]
ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
News OpenDocument was ratified as a file format standard Tuesday night by an international standards group, setting the stage for greater worldwide adoption of the open source file format. And because only seven members submitted comments for review...
[May 4, 2006, 13:30]
California eyes OpenDocument
News California may follow Massachusetts in making the OpenDocument Format the required standard for state agencies. The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is a standard XML-based file format used by OpenOffice, an open source application program supported by...
[March 1, 2007, 8:41]
Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
Talkback I am glad to hear of the support for the OpenDocument format. Over the years many different file formats have come and gone, so (personally) I try to use a standard or open file format rather than a proprietry one, prehaps the only exception being...
[June 26, 2006, 19:56]
