On paper, LibreOffice (and open-source software in general) has the upper hand. The software is free, you can trust the work ...

ODF is a rival to Office Open XML. If ECMA approves the Office Open XML format, used by Microsoft in its forthcoming Office 2007 software suite, the Danish ministries could use that instead.

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Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open ...

Meanwhile, an upcoming release of the Macintosh software, called Office 2008 for Mac, will use Open XML as its default file format. Open XML was approved as a standard last December by ECMA ...

Microsoft Corp. won approval for its Office Open XML document format from international standards body Ecma International. Ecma’s General Assembly voted 20-1 in favor of the standard at a ...

Microsoft is, of course, advising Office users to choose the Office Open XML format (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) when saving Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects, which already supports the same features ...