It offers over 100 improvements on its predecessor, including integrated voice technology in its Wordpro word processor and Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, a new version of the Organiser contact manager, and improved compatibility with Microsoft Office...
State agencies in the executive branch are now supposed to migrate to OpenDocument-compliant applications by 1 January, 2007, a change that will affect about 50,000 desktop PCs. The state on Wednesday posted the final version of its Enterprise...
It is likely that we will urge industry players to provide compatibility between formats, and in the long run to aim for one single format. According to sources familiar with the issue, Microsoft's drive to get its own file formats standardised may...
The same group of Microsoft partners will now start work on code to translate file formats between Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation software and the corresponding ODF files, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of...
The draft policy said: "All agencies are expected to migrate away from proprietary, binary office document formats to open, XML-based office document formats. The choice of document standards by government customers has been marked by intense...
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...