When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the ...

A Sun Microsystems executive says the OpenDocument format has the potential to change the world. Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia ...

Big guns in the software industry are massing behind OpenDocument as government customers show more interest in alternatives to Microsoft's desktop software. IBM and Sun Microsystems convened a ...

The Digital Preservation team at the National Archives is looking to migrate its Xena preservation software to the new OpenDocument format with the next release of the software, in turn being the ...

The OpenDocument Foundation, a little-known industry group that was originally created to promote the OpenDocument Format (ODF), has closed its doors after controversially dropping support for ODF in ...

More than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies are due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance today. The new body ...

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 ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Emboldened by the state of Massachusetts decision last ...

In another blow to the supremacy of Microsoft's Office franchise, Belgium on Friday became the second governmental body to approve the use of the OpenDocument format as a way to exchange government ...

Australia’s government may mandate that its agencies use software compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), an international file standard. The country’s government agencies mostly use Microsoft’s ...

Australia’s government may mandate that its agencies use software compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), an international file standard. The country’s government agencies mostly use Microsoft’s ...