From time-to-time users of Microsoft Word will come face-to-face with a file extension called ASD. In many cases, folks are confused about what to do with such a file and how to open it. Well, we are ...

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the ...

It’s been several years since Microsoft introduced a new document format in its Office 2007 suite called .Docx, but still, many people seem to wonder what .docx file is and how to open, read, and edit ...

The International Organization for Standardization announced it has granted international standard status to the Open Document Format, an open, XML-based suite of applications. The major international ...

The Open Document Format saw a marked uptick in use last year across the globe, according to the ODF Alliance’s 2007 report. Twelve countries and six regional governments have adopted “pro-ODF ...

At a hearing on Monday, Oct 31, 2005, a Massachusetts state Senate oversight committee began what could best be referred to as a process of discovery to determine, amongst other things, whether the ...

Although Massachusetts is unlikely to have its controversial Open Document Format policy fully implemented by a January deadline, new state CIO Louis Gutierrez said he's pushing as fast as he can to ...

I know this is not really a pure Linux type question, but could an open source office file format help the computing community in general. MS Word's .doc is the de facto standard right now and it ...

Microsoft on Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.

Microsoft Corp. Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.