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 ...

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 ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default—but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...

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 ...

Last week, I wrote about the recent Burton Group report that provided an overview of the Office Open XML (OOXML) and OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format specifications. The report, which is aimed at ...

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke with Sam Hiser, vice president of the OpenDocument Foundation, a small group dedicated to advancing the industry standard OpenDocument Format specification. At the time, ...

Sun's OpenDocument conversion plugin for Microsoft Office is now available for download. Released with little fanfare earlier this week, the plugin provides support for reading and writing ODF files ...

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.

Good news for Google Drive users and anyone who has now converted to using Docs, Sheets, and Slides as your main office suite of choice, Google has added in some handy new features that further extend ...

State legislatures in Minnesota and Texas are considering bills calling for the adoption of the Open Document Format for Office Applications, or ODF, as the standard file format for their state ...

Late yesterday, IBM's vice president of standards and open source Bob Sutor published a blog that points to Malaysia's potential adoption of the OpenDocument (ODF) file format. According to ...