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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,... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely to bother to keep conforming with the OOXML standard as it develops within ISO, but Brown is more optimistic: "Given... [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... [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... [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. The South African government is to adopt Open Document Format... [29 Oct 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]
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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [11 Jan 2007]
Word to get 'save as OpenDocument' add-on
News By the end of the year, the open source project building the converters will move past simply opening documents and add the ability to save documents created in Word in the ODF format, said Brian Jones, a... [16 Oct 2006]
Redmond has 'road to Damascus' open source conversion
News Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among... [06 Jul 2006]
Microsoft clashes with Adobe over PDF support
News Microsoft, which last October announced it would support Adobe's PDF format in its forthcoming Office upgrade, has reached an impasse after four months of talks, a... [05 Jun 2006]
EC dithers over OpenDocument approval
News The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the format has been endorsed by international standards groups. Last Tuesday, members of the... [08 May 2006]
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