Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. The software, developed by a France-based Microsoft...
Google has joined a group that is promoting an OpenDocument Format standard that allows people to open documents regardless of the application they were created in. Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, the XML-based...
Microsoft later this month plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format. By the end of the year, the open source project building the converters will move past simply opening documents and...
Once installed, a person can open and save documents in the ODF format from Word. The Microsoft format is called Office Open XML (OOXML), which is the default document format in the company's recently released Office 2007 suite.
The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML - a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft Office - and a Chinese national standard called Unified Office Format (UOF).
ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. The South African government is to adopt Open Document Format (ODF) as its preferred standard for software interoperability.