The ranks of governments adopting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) continued to grow, as did the depth and range of ODF applications, according to the annual report published by the ODF Alliance. "With a ...

The Open Document Format saw a marked uptick in use last year across the globe, according to the ODF Alliance’s 2007 report. Twelve countries and six regional governments have adopted “pro-ODF ...

The Document Foundation, the body behind the popular LibreOffice suite, has announced that Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF, also known as OpenDocument Format) 1.3 has been approved ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

The standardization organization OASIS Open has ratified the Open Document Format (ODF) in version 1.4 as a standard. This means the new version has reached the highest ratification level of the ...

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the ODF Alliance, an international group of organizations dedicated to promoting Open Document format for XML (ODF) as an international standard for document ...

FRANKFURT/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has lost a preliminary vote to have its Office Open XML document format approved as an international standard, denting the company's hopes of wider ...

This is relatively late breaking news and more details won't be known until tomorrow. Two days after a Senate oversight committee in Massachusetts (1) questioned the authority of the state's IT ...

The ISO's OpenDocument Format (ODF) is broken and needs to be mended, according to an expert who claims to have carried out tests on the standard. Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shakespeare wrote that a rose called by any other name would still smell as sweet. Proponents of open source software and standardizing document formats might wonder whether the same sentiments apply ...