The Open Document Fellowship was launched on Monday to add momentum to what appears to be a growing movement to support the open standard for the production, storage and dissemination of documents ...

Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments.

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 ...

Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of the OpenDocument format as an international standard. Microsoft asked to join the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee on March 15.

The OpenDocument format is backed by Microsoft rivals Sun Microsystems, IBM and others who favor open standards, many of them in the open-source community.