Now that Sun's Engineers have admitted that the OpenDocument format is much slower than Microsoft's format and that Microsoft's document format is open, what is the point in converting to the ...

The group behind the OpenDocument standard has submitted the document format to a key standards organization, a move that could make open-source desktop applications more attractive to governments ...

The software giant will sponsor an open-source project to create a converter between Open Office XML and OpenDocument file formats.

A lot of misinformation about the OpenDocument digital format has started to appear in the mainstream media and interest groups. Answers to many questions on the topic already have appeared, but they ...

Software giant joins group involved in standardization for OpenDocument, but says it "will have no impact on the voting." ...

Windows only: Open OpenDocument Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office using the OpenXML/ODF Translator, a free plug-in for Microsoft Word. One of t ...

IBM plans to support the OpenDocument standard in its desktop software from early next year.

A group of more than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies is due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance ...

The OpenDocument Foundation went out of business this week, with nothing more than a twitter to announce it's departure. The foundation, which was set up in 2002 to promote the OpenDocument Format, ...

Microsoft’s decision to allow its Office software to handle the increasingly popular OpenDocument Format (ODF) was a belated acknowledgement that the company could lose customers if it didn’t ...