It may seem to have started in Massachusetts, but the ideal behind the industrywide clamoring for open document formats isn’t just an isolated government crusade. A full-scale rebellion against ...

On 1 May 2005, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) recognized the Open Document Format (ODF) as the standard for an open source file format for office ...

The International Organization for Standardization announced it has granted international standard status to the Open Document Format, an open, XML-based suite of applications. The major international ...

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.

Frankfurt/Seattle, Sept 5 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – Microsoft has lost a preliminary vote to have its Office Open XML document format approved as an international ...

Microsoft has launched, with partners, the Open XML Translator project to create tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Office Open XML formats and ODF. The tools will be made ...

The Danish Parliament has decided on a set of rules to which open document formats must adhere if they are to be used by state authorities after April 1, 2011, Denmark's Liberal Party said on Friday.

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains “more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than an objective technology selection” by users, according to a report released Monday by analysts at Burton Group ...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has given its “sweeping approval” to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an international standard for retaining and exchanging digital office ...

Microsoft Corp. 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.