Gary Edwards, an engineer involved in the open-source OpenOffice.org project and founder of the OpenDocument Foundation, on Thursday discussed the software plug-in on the Web site Groklaw. The new ...

A lot of misinformation about the OpenDocument digital format has started to appear in the mainstream media and interest groups. Answers to many questions on the topic already have appeared, but they ...

The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net, a popular site for hosting code-sharing projects. The software will be available under the BSD open-source ...

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 ...

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 OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to OASIS, the standards body that developed the format. Patrick Gannon, the president ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of more than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies is due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance Friday.

Windows only: Open OpenDocument Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office using the OpenXML/ODF Translator, a free plug-in for Microsoft Word. One of the most obvious benefits is being able to open ...

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3 has become approved as a standard by OASIS Standard. Software that want to support ODF will now have specifications to meet making it easier to add support. The ...

Malware laced OpenDocument files target Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice users. Attackers have a new obfuscation technique that uses the OpenDocument file format for sneaking payloads past ...