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.

Standards battles tend to be all about politics and politicking, as the increasingly heated Open Document Format (ODF) vs. Office Open XML (OOXL) file-format contest proves. For those who'd rather not ...

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES, December 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open ...

Microsoft says the top Linux distribution in Asia-Pacific, Turbolinux, is joining Novell, Linspire and Xandros in creating document translator tools. At its annual WorldWide Partner Conference, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2006--Alfresco Software Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced full Open Document Format (ODF) support ...

More on the file format wars: Denmark will run a test of the two competing formats -- Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- over the next year, in which government agencies will be required to ...

Corel Corp. is adopting a neutral approach to the electronic document format duel and updating its WordPerfect word processing software to fully support both the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and ...

A group that was set up to promote the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support of that file format in favor of a set of specifications developed by the World Wide ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body yesterday, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma’s vote ...

Convincing customers they have the better technology is the weapon of choice when it comes to winning business battles in high tech First let's make one thing clear. At the highest level, ODF (Open ...

ODF (Open Document Format) has been endorsed by several governments, which tout the format is a way to break the stranglehold Microsoft has on the document-creation market. Open XML, on the other hand ...