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Jun 21, 2008

ODF Has Won, Says Microsoft

That is what we can conclude from Stuart McKee’s statement. It sure sounds nice! Unfortunately, it does hardly anything for the divide created because of ODF and OOXML. [Continue]

May 28, 2008

MS Office 2007 will have native support for ODF, meaning much more and beyond the import and export facilities. Microsoft’s OOXML has been already accepted has a standard, so this announcement seemed a little out of place, especially because ODF and PDF get support from Office before OOXML does. It is definitely good from an interoperability perspective, and it is commendable that Microsoft has started to think of path towards its interoperability promise. [Continue]

Mar 26, 2008

Document Freedom Day

26th March is Document Freedom Day. You can completely ignore it without getting harmed or abused or blamed for being indifferent. But if you know have ever faced a scenario when you could not open a document because did not have a specific office suite, knowing more about document liberation might be worth it. [Continue]

Nov 26, 2007

What Might Hurt ODF? And It Is Not Another Office Format

A while back the OpenDocument Foundation folded up, withdrawing its support for the ODF in favor of CDF. The reason for the switch is buried in the details of ODF community’s denial to be fully interoperable with Microsoft Office, which might have helped in migrating to ODF without affecting the processes. So, there was something bigger here playing it up. [Continue]

Nov 12, 2007

OpenDocument Foundation Closes

Slashdot has the piece over closure of the OpenDocument Foundation. Not affiliated to the OpenDocument Format, the foundation (not live anymore) recently made news for announcing that they no longer believed in the format. For some reason they believed that W3C’s Compound Document Format was the new chosen one. [Continue]

Aug 1, 2007

ODF Icons

Alex Fletcher gives his choice for ODF icons. There are more examples from which you can choose. I support ODF because it is the open standard that focused on interoperability and freedom from tools and vendors. [Continue]

Apr 11, 2007

ODF Validator

Daniel Carrera has announced the ODF Validator (via Sam Ruby). Like other validators it will check compliance of your document with the specification and warn you otherwise. Why is this important? [Continue]

Feb 17, 2007

Open XML v/s ODF Or Microsoft v/s IBM

Apparently Microsoft has issued an open letter which blames IBM for opposing Open XML as a standard. For the uninitiated, OpenDocument Format (ODF) was led by the OpenOffice project which has considerable contributions from IBM and Open XML comes out of Office 2007 by Microsoft. I am learning lessons about how easily can we lose focus and corrupt discussions. [Continue]

Feb 2, 2007

Translating From OpenXML To ODF

Microsoft has started an open source project for translating documents from Open XML to ODF formats. This was one of the things that had come up when Open XML was standardized. The OpenXML Translator, which is an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, will provide options for opening and saving in ODF format. [Continue]

Dec 8, 2006

Double Standards!

Open XML is now a ECMA standard. At the General Assembly meeting on 7 December 2006, Ecma International approved Office Open XML as an Ecma standard (Ecma 376). The General Assembly also approved submitting the standard for adoption under the ISO/IEC JTC 1 process. [Continue]

ODF Has Won, Says Microsoft

MS Office To Support ODF

Document Freedom Day

What Might Hurt ODF? And It Is Not Another Office Format

OpenDocument Foundation Closes

ODF Icons

ODF Validator

Open XML v/s ODF Or Microsoft v/s IBM

Translating From OpenXML To ODF

Double Standards!

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