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  • IBM brings 'Microsoft-free' PCs to Europe

    IBM emphasised that government agencies in particular are interested in open standards, with many governments beginning to require formats such as ODF or PDF for official documents. Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org and uses the…
    07 March 2008
    Tags: Productivity • Country • Notes • Red Hat • Markets • Interest

  • ODF editor calls for OOXML co-operation

    The teams developing the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) standards should work together, evolving the two in parallel, the editor of the ODF standard has said in an open letter to the standards-setting community.The…
    21 February 2008
    Tags: Committee • Parallel • Iso • Xml • Format • Editor

  • Redmond defends Open XML work

    Microsoft defended its creation of Open XML and its sometimes-controversial standardisation process during a press event on Wednesday.Rather than stacking the vote, Microsoft simply wanted to allow interested organisations to participate in the…
    17 January 2008
    Tags: Press • Event • Iso • Xml • Body • Vote

  • Burton Group trumpets Open XML benefits

    The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains "more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than an objective technology selection," according to the Burton Group. The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains "more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than…
    16 January 2008
    Tags: Compatibility • Analysts • Iso • Xml • Selection • Governments

  • Corel betas new WordPerfect

    It's a very positive story for the industry in general, he said.ODF and OOXML are freely-available and implementable XML-based file format specifications for electronic documents, like spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing…
    11 October 2007
    Tags: Compatibility • Microsoft Office • Productivity • Xml • Format • Shift

  • Adobe applies to have PDF accepted as ISO standard

    The entire spec will be available as an umbrella standard," Rosenbaum said.She denied the decision was in response to recent moves towards standardisation by the backers of duelling electronic document formats - the OpenDocument Format (ODF…
    29 January 2007
    Tags: Portable • Document • Iso • Xml • Format • Body

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  • Q&A: Avanade's CEO weighs in on Microsoft, open source, ODF

    Qs CEO weighs in on Microsoft, open source, ODF Eric Lai, Computerworld Mitch Hill also doesn't see Software-as-a-Service as a threat Interviews But in general, unless you're a very young company with very limited resources, people have better…
    17 July 2006
    Tags: Cios • Microsoft Office • Corporations • Revenues • Talk • Workflow
 

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