Windows only: Open OpenDocument Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office using the OpenXML/ODF Translator, a free plug-in for Microsoft Word. One of the most obvious benefits is being able to open ...

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.

Standards battles tend to be all about politics and politicking, as the increasingly heated Open Document Format (ODF) vs. Office Open XML (OOXL) file-format contest proves. For those who'd rather not ...

Corel is adopting a neutral approach to the electronic-document-format duel and updating its WordPerfect word-processing software to support fully both the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft‘s ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body yesterday, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma’s vote ...

Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default—but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...

A group that was set up to promote the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support of that file format in favor of a set of specifications developed by the World Wide ...

More on the file format wars: Denmark will run a test of the two competing formats -- Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- over the next year, in which government agencies will be required to ...

After suffering a setback from the ISO when the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) received approval as the international standard, Microsoft has restated its commitment to push ...

Corel Corp. is adopting a neutral approach to the electronic document format duel and updating its WordPerfect word processing software to fully support both the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and ...