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 ...
It may be Valentine’s Day but there are no love letters being exchanged between dueling electronic document formats, OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Open XML. Instead, Microsoft Corp., the backer of ...
Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body yesterday, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma’s vote ...
Sun Monday urged a Massachusetts state official to rethink an opinion that Microsoft’s Open XML meets the state’s parameters for an acceptable open document format just because it has been submitted ...
Voting Ecma members -- except IBM-- approved the move, according to a Microsoft spokeswoman. Members include Adobe Systems, Avaya, Canon, Toshiba, Intel, Microsoft, Barclays' Capital and other ...
Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft Corp. as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt ...
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 ...
"Novell is cooperating with Microsoft and others on a project to create bidirectional, open-source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft ...
Official says it would be a "mistake" to support Open XML based on "a single vendor's promise to submit a new product to a standards body at some point in the future." Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday ...