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.

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 ...

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, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2006--Alfresco Software Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced full Open Document Format (ODF) support ...

Corel Corp. is adopting a neutral approach to the electronic document format duel and updating its WordPerfect word processing software to fully support both the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and ...

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 won approval from the Ecma International standards body yesterday, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma’s vote ...

Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007. The move follows charges from the ODF Alliance and the British Educational Communications ...

Denmark’s government agencies will be required to handle two competing document format standards, the Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft’s Open XML, during a one-year test period that will begin ...

Looks like Microsoft is going to win the battle of the file formats in Massachusetts. The commonwealth's latest policy draft (RTF) indicates that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) is an acceptable ...