The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains “more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than an objective technology selection” by users, according to a report released Monday by analysts at Burton Group ...

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.

It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful ...

Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications ...

Microsoft Corp. today said it will work with the Chinese government to craft tools for translating documents between the company’s Open XML and China’s home-brewed Uniform Office Format (UOF). UOF, ...

More specifically, the Geneva-based organization formed a Technical Committee to produce a formal standard of the work that is compatible with Office Open XML formats. That committee will take on ...

Company says customers and concerns about interoperability drive its continued work to standardize its open file format, a rival to ODF Rather than stacking the vote, Microsoft simply wanted to allow ...

Microsoft said Thursday that XML would be the default file format for three applications when it ships Office 12 late next year. The company said its new Microsoft Office Open XML Formats would be ...

The big picture: Today's world runs on digital documents, but companies and users face a maze of incompatible proprietary file formats. LibreOffice developers contend that only strictly open standards ...