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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's director of standards, Jason Matusow,... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Indeed, a strong motivation for approving 29500 as an ISO/IEC standard was to discourage Microsoft from this kind of file-format rug-pulling stunt in future.... [21 Apr 2008]
Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad
News As a result we are pushing back the release of the final Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac. At the same time though, it has again pushed back the release of converters needed... [22 Feb 2008]
Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency
News Hardie also explained Office 2007 is not recommended for schools as there are interoperability issues between Microsoft's latest file format, OOXML, and the open file... [10 Jan 2008]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. In a report focused on interoperability, minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi wrote... [29 Oct 2007]
Vista SP1 coming early next year
News Also being added are support for an emerging removable storage file format known as exFAT as well as for EFI (extensible firmware interface), an alternative to the Bios (basic input output system) that... [30 Aug 2007]
Microsoft's 'new JPEG' to get standards vote
News In coming months, 16 national standards groups will formally vote on whether the Joint Photographic Experts Group, after which the JPEG file format is named, should make... [01 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... [04 Jul 2007]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards, said: "We support the Commonwealth's proposal to add Ecma Office Open XML File Formats to the list of approved standards, as... [03 Jul 2007]
Microsoft to expand document formats
News The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML - a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft Office - and a Chinese national... [21 May 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News The Microsoft format is called Office Open XML (OOXML), which is the default document format in the company's recently released Office 2007 suite. Once installed, a... [02 Feb 2007]
Office 2007 a slow burner for businesses
News The current debate over Opendocument file format standards is also of little concern to CIOs when making decisions on office productivity suites, with one respondent from a financial services company... [24 Jan 2007]
Office 2008 for Mac: It's coming this year
News On the file format front, Microsoft said this spring it plans to have ready a beta test version of converters, allowing people with the current Office for Mac to read and write documents... [11 Jan 2007]
"Digital black hole" threatens your documents
News The Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access project through Networked Services) consortium will develop a "sustainable framework" to maintain access to digital content after its original storage format has disappeared. [15 Dec 2006]
Mac OS X flaw: US gov adds warning
News The US computer emergency response team (US-Cert) issued an alert last week, reporting a failure in the way OS X handles corrupted disk image files - for Macs, the '.dmg' file format. A... [27 Nov 2006]
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