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 ...

Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format.

Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim Thatcher ...

Microsoft says the top Linux distribution in Asia-Pacific, Turbolinux, is joining Novell, Linspire and Xandros in creating document translator tools. At its annual WorldWide Partner Conference, ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML file format from the Ecma International standards body Thursday, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma's vote could also make ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

Peace may be breaking out between the Microsoft-backed Open XML format and the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF) after the software giant said it would lead an effort to create free, open-source ...

More on the file format wars: Denmark will run a test of the two competing formats -- Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- over the next year, in which government agencies will be required to ...

Following criticism from The Document Foundation, the EU Commission has also provided the feedback template for the CRA ...

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains “more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than an objective technology selection” by users, according to a report released Monday by analysts at Burton Group ...

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 ...