The large-scale migration to LiMux goes pretty well; Microsoft increasingly attempts to derail such migrations
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Apple Helps Microsoft Attack Google’s Linux While Google Spreads GNU/Linux, ODF
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Mishmash of news; Apple's helping hand to Microsoft is reappearing now that GNU/Linux and ODF gain traction, partly thanks to Google
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The Relevancy of ODF 1.0
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By the time you read this (actually probably by the time I finish writing this post) a ballot approving the Public Review Draft of ODF 1.2, Part 1 will have passed.
Read more »ODF Wins in Slovakia, Maybe More Countries
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Updates on ODF progress around the world, among developers, and in committees
Read more »Officeshots: making ODF truly interoperable
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Complex file formats, such as those used for office documents, inevitably lead to differences in interpretation by application developers. If a user sends a document to someone else who views it in a different application or version, chances are that the output shows some subtle differences or, by bad luck, that the formatting is completely munged.
Read more »Bologna achieves vendor independence for its office applications
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The administration of the Italian city of Bologna has almost completed its move to OpenOffice. Most of the 3600 PCs now run this open source suite of office applications. The administration is planning to move more applications to open source, aiming to become less dependent on specific IT vendors.
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Helge Sander Helps Microsoft Again by Blocking ODF in Denmark
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Danish minister with history of Microsoft affinity is suspending a move to make OpenDocument Format the only national standard
Read more »More on France and Microsoft’s OOXML; ODF Still a Leader
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More analysis of Microsoft's OOXML shenanigans in France and some updates on the uptake of ODF
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KDE Community Releases KOffice 2.1
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The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul.
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EIF Scrutinised, ODF Evolves, and Microsoft’s OOXML “Lies” lead to backlash
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Amid the fight against open standards, ODF 1.2 is coming and Microsoft is accused of “lying” about OOXML
Read more »European governments help increase ODF interoperability
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Representatives from three European member states, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, took part in the second Open Document Format (ODF) interoperability workshop held in the Italian town of Orvieto at the beginning of this month.
Read more »A Week in ODF: Conferences, New Implementations, New ODFDOM
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ODF news from the past week, mostly positive this time around (no signs of sabotage from the Microsoft ecosystem)
Read more »OpenDocument Format (ODF) Now Officially a Malaysian Standard
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A lot of ODF news and some leading developments from Malaysia
Read more »Lots of New Vendor/Developer Support for OpenDocument Format
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More OpenDocument Format (ODF) wins and an important reminder of people who try to harm it, sometimes while pretending to be "helping"
Read more »OpenOffice boom in Belgium
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The number of public administrations in Belgium that use the open source office productivity suite OpenOffice is rising steadily. And with it the use of the open document format ODF
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