Suns plug-in adds ODF support to MS Office. A good step toward interoperability, but not perfect yet. Wizards guide users through installation and set-up of the Sun ODF Plugin. A hyperlink on the ...

In addition to opening its own native .ODF file format, OpenOffice Calc can also open worksheets from other spreadsheet software such as Excel. According to Apache, when working with an Excel sheet in ...

Well, by now most have read that Microsoft will be sponsoring a third-party open source add-in for Office which will enable its Office products to read and write ODF files. This capability will be ...

Sun's OpenDocument conversion plugin for Microsoft Office is now available for download. Released with little fanfare earlier this week, the plugin provides support for reading and writing ODF files ...

Last week, I wrote about the recent Burton Group report that provided an overview of the Office Open XML (OOXML) and OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format specifications. The report, which is aimed at ...

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NEW YORK (07/09/2007) – Microsoft Corp. is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux Inc. to help tailor work being done to translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Japanese and ...

The plug-in, which is not yet publicly available, will be submitted soon to Massachusetts, which is scheduled in January to make use of the standard ODF file format mandatory within state government.

Microsoft has this week released a new update for its SkyDrive product, that allows you to host and share files within a cloud-based infrastructure, and access them from your web browser. The new ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default — but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...