However, Microsoft executives have consistently said that the company will not support OpenDocument natively and rely instead on "filters" to convert formats. The state on Wednesday posted the final version of its Enterprise Technical Reference...
Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, OpenDocument has emerged as an alternative with significant vendor backing and with high-profile government customers in Belgium and Massachusetts.
BI vendors, on the other hand, are all vying to bring BI mainstream through their vision of query, reporting and dashboards on every desktop. Commonly based on the new service-oriented architectures, these suites are focused on driving BI...
A Microsoft-sponsored open source project is expected to today release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on...
Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats. If accepted, the policy update would list Office Open XML as acceptable "open formats" for use by executive-branch state agencies.
We hear, for example, that customers feel as if Microsoft is holding their data to ransom by keeping it locked up in proprietary formats. It is constantly pressured to be more open, so it switches from binary to XML formats, and passes the end...
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