A new report published by the Burton Group about XML-based office document formats touts Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format and questions the relevance of ODF, asserting that the ...

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the ODF Alliance, an international group of organizations dedicated to promoting Open Document format for XML (ODF) as an international standard for document ...

It was a good year for Open Document Format (ODF), which gained support from governments across the world in 2008 as its backers continued to promote it as an international standard for XML-based ...

Microsoft joins group that takes part in ISO voting process to standardize ODF. In a move some think has the potential to stall the adoption of OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an international standard, ...

The battle for office document supremacy rages on. Reported yesterday, Microsoft has joined the V1 Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface group, which is part of the larger INCITS/V1 ...

Rather than stacking the vote, Microsoft simply wanted to allow interested organizations to participate in the Open XML standardization process, unlike other rival efforts, a company executive said ...

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The ODF Alliance has succeeded in getting governments on board with the competing standard to Microsoft's Open XML, but the private sector remains unconvinced Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of ...