Microsoft wins latest round in OpenDocument battle
News Microsoft rivals, including IBM, Sun and Google, are leveraging their collective weight behind OpenDocument. The rival OpenDocument format rose in prominence earlier this year when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a policy — now being...
[December 13, 2005, 16:15]
Massachusetts may embrace Microsoft Office
News Another proposed change to the policy would make the most recent version of OpenDocument Format for Office Applications — another standardised document format — acceptable under the state's guidelines.
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
OpenOffice 3.0 release hit by server crash
News OOXML is the chief rival to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) specification that has been used in OpenOffice for some time. The OpenOffice.org servers have crashed, apparently under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office...
[October 13, 2008, 15:33]
Shuttleworth distances himself from Microsoft
News OpenDocument Format (ODF) is better and Microsoft should improve its support for that standard, Shuttleworth said. In the same blog post, Shuttleworth said pursuing technical interoperability between rival document formats Office Open XML and...
[June 19, 2007, 19:27]
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]
