Users of open-source office suites like Lotus Symphony and OpenOffice know that those programs can open Microsoft Office documents, but what if you're an Office user who needs to open an Open Document ...

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.

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim Thatcher ...

The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

LibreOffice developer The Document Foundation (TDF) is once again reminding users that not all document formats are created equal. Italo Vignoli, TDF's co-founder, warned that using ...

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, ...

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 from the Ecma International standards body Thursday, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma's vote could also make ...

Hardly a week goes by without some new story on OpenDoc Format (ODF) vs. Office Open XML (OOXML) file-format wars grabbing headlines. This week, it's California is threatning to go the way of ...

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 ...

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 ...