EU switches Cyber Resilience Act feedback form to ODS after LibreOffice group criticizes use of Microsoft Excel’s XLSX format.

The Document Foundation is back with a new target: the European Commission. It is calling the body out for using Microsoft Excel while ignoring the OpenDocument Format (ODF).

Microsoft’s decision to allow its Office software to handle the increasingly popular OpenDocument Format was a belated acknowledgement that the company could lose customers if it didn’t, analysts said ...

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 ...

In another blow to the supremacy of Microsoft’s Office franchise, Belgium on Friday became the second governmental body to approve the use of the OpenDocument format as a way to exchange government ...

The state government official who had been moving Massachusetts away from Microsoft Corp.’s digital document formats has resigned. Peter Quinn, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Commonwealth of ...

California may follow Massachusetts in making the OpenDocument Format the required standard for state agencies. The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is a standard XML-based file format used by OpenOffice, an ...