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 ...

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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 ...

As of last week, there’s a new participant in the process of standardizing the OpenDocument office file format: Say hello to Microsoft. No, Redmond hasn’t done an about-face. You still won’t be seeing ...

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 ...

In high tech it has always been the same. What to an outsider may seem like an inconsequential piece of new technology, to an insider is visionary. This is the case with the recent ISO preliminary ...

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 ...

In context: OpenDocument is an ISO standardized format for saving word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics using ZIP compression and XML metadata. ODF is the native file ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...