A group of software developers have created a program to make Microsoft Office work with files in the OpenDocument format, a move that would bridge currently incompatible desktop applications. Gary ...

Massachusetts CIO Louis Gutierrez last week reiterated that the availability of third-party plug-in software enabling Microsoft Office users to open and save files in the OpenDocument format would ...

In context: OpenDocument is an ISO standardized format for saving word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics using ZIP compression and XML metadata. ODF is the native file ...

A consortium of companies and organizations have banded together to form the "ODF Alliance," a group dedicated to promoting the office software file format first implemented by OpenOffice.org. The ...

Microsoft officials last week reiterated that they don’t plan to include support for the OpenDocument file format in Office 12. In contrast, the beta version of the rival OpenOffice 2.0 suite, which ...

As of last week, there’s a new participant in the process of standardizing the OpenDocument office file format: Say hello to Microsoft. No, Redmond hasn’t done an about-face. You still won’t be seeing ...

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