When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. The OpenDocument Format has come under attack from Microsoft, which claims its Office Open XML format has significantly better performance.

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 ...

Big guns in the software industry are massing behind OpenDocument as government customers show more interest in alternatives to Microsoft's desktop software. IBM and Sun Microsystems convened a ...

More than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies are due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance today. The new body ...

The OpenDocument Foundation, after five years of promoting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for office applications, is switching direction and embracing a different format. ODF, which is overseen by the ...

Shakespeare wrote that a rose called by any other name would still smell as sweet. Proponents of open source software and standardizing document formats might wonder whether the same sentiments apply ...

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 ...

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Microsoft on Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.