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Five ways Microsoft has changed since Gates left
Comment The company, according to Mitchell, is sporting a "more mature attitude" towards interoperability with products such as Open XML, ODF translators and support for the Daisy consortium, which is aimed at promoting talking... [08 Jul 2009]
Standardizing Office Suites @ PAE Limited
White Paper Symphony supports the new ODF standards for file formats as well as Microsoft Office file types. Premier Auto Electric (PAE) Limited is a marketing and distribution company dealing in lead acid storage batteries, power... [12 Jun 2009]
Cable Management Practices for Active Ethernet Architectures
White Paper This paper addresses considerations for cabling and cable management between the Optical Distribution Frame (ODF) and the active electronics in the Central Office/HeadEnd (CO/HE) when deploying active ethernet. [02 Apr 2009]
Microsoft Office to open up to rival formats
News In fact, last year, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency filed a complaint with the European Commission in which it alleged that Office 2007 would impede educational initiatives because it failed to natively... [16 Dec 2008]
Generating Generic XForms for OpenOffice
White Paper Because OpenOffice's internal representation is ODF XML, it is natural to generate ODF from other XML formats using an XSLT transformation. This applies equally well to an XForm inside of an... [30 Nov 2008]
Oasis forms ODF support committee
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) has formed a committee to promote the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. The ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC)... [05 Nov 2008]
IBM warns ISO to shape up
News Supporters of the rival ODF document standard alleged that national bodies had been stacked with Microsoft supporters, and objected to the fast-track process by which another body, ECMA, submitted OOXML to ISO. [24 Sep 2008]
Microsoft interoperability makes "substantial progress" in schools
News The schools' IT body had been concerned about interoperability between the open-source Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office 2007 formats. At the time of writing, Becta was not able to tell silicon.com sister... [17 Sep 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News UKUUG also says OOXML is unnecessary, given the existence of the OpenDocument Format (ODF), another XML-based international standard format. A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its... [23 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News The software is free, with unlimited technical support for around $25 per user, and it supports the ODF document format - which could cast an unflattering light on the confusion around Microsoft Office. [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues. Microsoft announced on Wednesday it will support ODF version 1.1 in... [23 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News If they had wanted that, they could have gone with the ODF format [but], if they adopt something like that, they begin to lose their stranglehold on the desktop. The British Standards Institution has been taken to court... [02 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the Open Source Initiative version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) document standard -... [21 Apr 2008]
OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'
News Many observers had been against that standardisation, pointing out that the OpenDocument Format (ODF) already existed as an ISO standard, and arguing OOXML's documentation contained too many unanswered technical problems... [15 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment The most obvious one is that a perfectly good ISO standard for storing office type documents in XML format already exists in ODF (OpenDocument Format). This argument portrays ODF as clean, well... [04 Apr 2008]
