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Oasis forms ODF support committee
News As part of this, it will compile a body of ODF interoperability test documents and host multivendor interoperability demonstrations showcasing products that conform. Oasis has been overseeing the development of ODF,... [05 Nov 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News A High Court judge threw out the application on 5 June but UKUUG is now set to appeal that decision, claiming that unresolved flaws in the OOXML specification threaten the long-term readability of documents created using... [23 Jun 2008]
EC pledges open standards support
News The critics argued this could lock governments into using Microsoft products in perpetuity, as governments need to store documents indefinitely. The Commission also said earlier this year it would investigate allegations... [12 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News In its ongoing antitrust investigation concerning interoperability with Microsoft, the Commission will investigate whether the announced support of ODF in Office leads to better interoperability and allows consumers to process and... [23 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News For example, users of Office 2003 could have trouble reading documents created in Office 2007. However, at the start of this year the Commission began its own investigation into Microsoft's interoperability issues, an... [14 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News He said: "If you're talking about reading documents in one or two hundred years' time, you would have great problems in doing it [with documents based on OOXML]. The British Standards Institution has... [02 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for... [21 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings of how to read and create Microsoft Office documents. European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software... [04 Apr 2008]
Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad
News At the same time though, it has again pushed back the release of converters needed by users of Office 2004 to read documents saved in the new XML file formats used by Office 2007 for Windows. By further... [22 Feb 2008]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. It is an international standard recognised by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), and a rival... [29 Oct 2007]
FSF slams Microsoft OOXML standards vote tactics
News Greve added that OOXML, although purporting to be an open standard, in fact contained proprietary components, while an example of the specification not being up to scratch was that it gave rounding errors when... [31 Aug 2007]
No open door for Microsoft's Office Open XML
News The result is the latest setback for Microsoft in its long-running battle to see its Open XML approved as an open standard for office documents on equal terms with... [14 Aug 2007]
Massachusetts opts for open docs 'third way'
News Earlier this month, Pepoli said that state agencies will be able to choose which formats they create and save documents in. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to adopt both OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's rival... [03 Aug 2007]
National Archive tackles 'digital dark age'
News Microsoft has already shown commitment to this with the Open XML file format - used on its latest software - which allows data in documents to be unlocked to be archived and restructured... [04 Jul 2007]
Microsoft to expand document formats
News The converters, to be available on open source project hosting site SourceForge.net, let people open and save documents in either the Ecma Open XML... [21 May 2007]
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