Multi-trade International Corporation for Research of Office Software Open Format Technologies (MICROSOFT) has announced their surprise decision, that they cease to support OOXML document format (Office Open XML), acknowledging at the same time, that the ANSI-developed & supported TXT format will be a better, universal, solution.
Read more »ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words Chapter 2
This is the second chapter in a real-time eBook writing project I launched and explained last week. The following is one of a number of stage-setting chapters to follow. Comments, corrections and suggestions gratefully accepted. All Microsoft product names used below are registered trademarks of Microsoft.
Read more »Category: Legal Tags:
- Login to post comments
ODF VS OOXML: Library support shootout
How well is ODF and OOXML supported in different languages? I started off by choosing six common languages used by application and Web developers, then I went and looked for what libraries are available for each document format
Read more »Category: Legal Tags:
- Login to post comments
Getting the (Share)Point About Document Formats
The OpenDocument Foundation was formed in 2005, with the mission "to provide a conduit for funding and support for individual contributors to participate in ODF development" at the standards body OASIS.
Read more »Category: Legal Tags:
Obama Voices Support for ODF
The senator promises to put government data online in universally accessible formats if elected.
Read more »Category: Government Tags:
- Login to post comments
OpenDocument and Qt fonts goodness
Lots of goodness has been happening with the Open Document Format. Well, not the format itself, that has been an ISO standard for some time and that kind of implies it gets a bit boring. Fileformats being boring is, much like in governments, a good thing. Boring means stable. And we need a stable Foundation. (bonus points to the people that got the reference ;) )
Read more »Category: Legal Tags:
- Login to post comments
Open Document Format gains more support
The first international workshop of Open Document Format (ODF) public sector users took place in Berlin on 29-30 October 2007, hosted by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Read more »Category: Government Tags:
- Login to post comments
Open Standards, Open Format - Key to the Future
This paper provides legal implications of formats and explains why it is better to adopt format based on open standards. Guidelines for implementing open formats are also provided.
Read more »Category: Philosophy Tags:
- Login to post comments
Key KOffice Developers Talk About KOffice 2 and Open Standards
KOffice, the office suite built on KDE technology and in the KDE Communtiy has recently gotten a lot of press, but is still often underrepresented. In this interview, some key KOffice developers tell us about the recent progress of KDE's Office suite, about Open Standards and how KOffice plays an active role in bringing Freedom to users.
Read more »Document Format Dispute Spills into the Open
The recent decision by the Open Document Foundation to substitute the World Wide Web Consortium's Compound Document Format in place of the format it was set up to promote, the Open Document Format, has sparked a contentious debate over what shape the format should take.
Read more »Category: Legal Tags:
- Login to post comments
Lack of standards stifles agility
If you aren't happy with the performance of your software, the solution should be simple: Switch to different software. In practice, however, jumping ship is seldom that easy, and vendor lock-in is a reality with which most IT departments are far too familiar.
Read more »- Login to post comments
What the hell is Ogg Vorbis, and why should I use it?
"Ogg Vorbis is a new audio compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio formats. It is different from these other formats because it is completely free, open, and unpatented."
Read more »- Login to post comments
Government Open Source Conference to Feature Open Document Debate
This year's Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) to be held Oct. 15-16 in Portland, Ore., will close with panelists from Microsoft, Sun, IBM and the OpenDocument Foundation weighing in on Open Document Formats.
Read more »Category: Government Tags:
- Login to post comments
3.2 billion people voted NO and against OOXML
Although the ISO process gives Malta the same voice as China, the reality is that national support for Microsoft formats is critical to the future of the MS-Office lock-in. We look at the figures behind the NO votes...
Read more »Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Malaysia formally embraces open doc format
The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.
Read more »Category: Government Tags:
- Login to post comments