The ranks of governments adopting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) continued to grow, as did the depth and range of ODF applications, according to the annual report published by the ODF Alliance. "With a ...

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The standardization organization OASIS Open has ratified the Open Document Format (ODF) in version 1.4 as a standard. This means the new version has reached the highest ratification level of the ...

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3 has become approved as a standard by OASIS Standard. Software that want to support ODF will now have specifications to meet making it easier to add support. The ...

This is relatively late breaking news and more details won't be known until tomorrow. Two days after a Senate oversight committee in Massachusetts (1) questioned the authority of the state's IT ...

Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues — but Microsoft refuses to admit that ODF has won the document ...

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the ODF Alliance, an international group of organizations dedicated to promoting Open Document format for XML (ODF) as an international standard for document ...

Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format.

The OpenDocument Foundation, a little-known industry group that was originally created to promote the OpenDocument Format (ODF), has closed its doors after controversially dropping support for ODF in ...

FRANKFURT/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has lost a preliminary vote to have its Office Open XML document format approved as an international standard, denting the company's hopes of wider ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default—but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...

The Open Document Format saw a marked uptick in use last year across the globe, according to the ODF Alliance’s 2007 report. Twelve countries and six regional governments have adopted “pro-ODF ...