The OpenDocument standard, which uses XML data-tagging to format and store documents, was only ratified in May of this year. The format, known in full as the OASIS Open Document Format for Office ...

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has come under attack from Microsoft, which claims its Office Open XML format has significantly better performance. "The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to ...

OASIS submitted OpenDocument to ISO in May 2005. Gannon expects that process to be complete in the third quarter of this year. Some governments limit their procurement to software that adheres to ...

The controversy over the OpenDocument format (ODF) in Massachusetts has taken on a new twist: the largest supporter in the state, and Chief Information Officer (CIO), has turned in his resignation ...

A group of more than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies is due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance Friday.

A group of more than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies is due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance Friday.

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 ...

Five U.S. library associations have voiced their support for Massachusetts' decision to adopt the OpenDocument document format standard. In a memo sent to Massachusetts Secretary of State William ...

Microsoft Corp., bowing to pressure from governments, will offer free software that will let Word, Excel and PowerPoint handle documents in a rival technology format promoted by Sun Microsystems ...

OpenDocument is an open, vendor-neutral file format, recognized by the majority of productivity programs, such as Word, LibreOffice Writer, or Apache OpenOffice Writer as one of the most popular ...

Microsoft isn't seeing a sharp uptick in demand for OpenDocument, but government customers urged the company to provide interoperability between Microsoft's own forthcoming XML Office formats and ...

The OpenDocument Format Alliance also claims that ODF is the only established open-standard document format, and that it enables the retrieval of information and exchange of documents between ...