Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

A lot of misinformation about the OpenDocument digital format has started to appear in the mainstream media and interest groups. Answers to many questions on the topic already have appeared, but they ...

Big guns in the software industry are massing behind OpenDocument as government customers show more interest in alternatives to Microsoft's desktop software. IBM and Sun Microsystems convened a ...

The OpenDocument Foundation, a little-known industry group that was originally created to promote the OpenDocument Format (ODF), has closed its doors after controversially dropping support for ODF in ...

The OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to OASIS, the standards body that developed the format. Patrick Gannon, the president ...

Windows only: Open OpenDocument Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office using the OpenXML/ODF Translator, a free plug-in for Microsoft Word. One of the most obvious benefits is being able to open ...

As of last week, there’s a new participant in the process of standardizing the OpenDocument office file format: Say hello to Microsoft. No, Redmond hasn’t done an about-face. You still won’t be seeing ...

Malware laced OpenDocument files target Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice users. Attackers have a new obfuscation technique that uses the OpenDocument file format for sneaking payloads past ...

On the heels of last week’s debut of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance, the OASIS standards body Tuesday said it was forming a similar group. But while the ODF Alliance seeks to encourage ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...