At the highest level, ODF (Open Document Format) vs. OpenXML is a battle between two business competitors, IBM and Microsoft, each of which views itself as threatened by the other.

IBM VP: Office OpenXML a dead end, Microsoft will back ODF At the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, Ars spoke with IBM's Bob Sutor about … ...

OpenXML ensures long term preservation of content. OpenXML is technically superior to competing formats given it has support for custom schemas i.e. for any document format that your company devises.

A week or so ago, I published a podcast at IT Conversation with Scott Mace interviewing Gary Edwards about OpenDocument. Edwards is the president of the OpenDocument Foundation.

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 ...

REDMOND – Jan. 19, 2009 – In December, 2008 Microsoft published implementation notes Open Document Format (ODF) in Office 2007 Service Pack 2. On Jan. 16, 2009 the company published a second set of ...

The group released the OpenXML Document Viewer as an open source project on its Codeplex Web site. The viewer translates documents in the Open XML format, which became an ISO standard in April ...

OpenXML SDK 2.0 for MS Office provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. WorddocGenerator, an open source utility for generating template driven word files is one example o ...

With the new OpenXML format, there is the promise of an clean and efficient way to manipulate Office documents via XML. But with a 6000+ page spec, finding the exact nodes one needs to manipulate is a ...

OpenXML has been subjected to intense debate already, but was ratified by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) in April.