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.

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More than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies are due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance today. The new body ...

In context: OpenDocument is an ISO standardized format for saving word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics using ZIP compression and XML metadata. ODF is the native file ...

In another blow to the supremacy of Microsoft’s Office franchise, Belgium on Friday became the second governmental body to approve the use of the OpenDocument format as a way to exchange government ...

Microsoft’s decision to allow its Office software to handle the increasingly popular OpenDocument Format was a belated acknowledgement that the company could lose customers if it didn’t, analysts said ...

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 Alliance Friday. The new ...

A battle between supporters of Microsoft's XML format and ODF led by IBM and Sun Microsystems convulsed the state's IT operation for months, as both sides courted Massachusetts politicians. In naming ...

It may be Valentine’s Day but there are no love letters being exchanged between duelling electronic document formats, ODF (OpenDocument Format) and Open XML. Instead, Microsoft, the backer of Open XML ...

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