The software giant will sponsor an open-source project to create a converter between Open Office XML and OpenDocument file formats. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Last week, while Mashup Camp was taking place, a reader from Israel responded to my blog regarding Microsoft's support (actually, the lack thereof) of the OpenDocument Format. Microsoft recently got a ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

While it’s hard to top reports on Linux vs. Windows studies as fodder for debate, last week’s other newsletter on the resignation of the CIO for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts drew numerous ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday the creation of the Open XML Translator project, so its Office suite will support the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. The move comes in response to government ...

From Groklaw: "I have just heard from the OpenDocument Foundation's Gary Edwards, with news about a plugin the Foundation is offering the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in response to the ...

Microsoft officials last week reiterated that they don’t plan to include support for the OpenDocument file format in Office 12. In contrast, the beta version of the rival OpenOffice 2.0 suite, which ...

The plug-in, which is not yet publicly available, will be submitted soon to Massachusetts, which is scheduled in January to make use of the standard ODF file format mandatory within state government.

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 ...

The company behind Web-based word processor Writely announced on Monday that it will handle documents saved in the OpenDocument format. Writely was launched by privately held Upstartle in August of ...