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We’ve just announced that Office 2007 will get native support for ODF with the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2, early next year. You can already save files from Office 2007 in 20 different formats – of which, my favourite three are: Office Open XML – which is the new standard format for Office...

It's been confirmed this week by ISO that the Open XML file formats have become an ISO standard, joining ODF, HTML & PDF as open document standards. My colleague Jerry Fishenden is far more eloquent about what this means than me as his post shows. For a while I've been wondering when I should stop...

Firstly, what is OpenXML? Well, it's the underlying document format in Office 2007. Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study– not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor — that finds Microsoft’s OOXML document format to be more useful than the rival ODF format backed...

What is DAISY you might ask? The DAISY Consortium, a coalition of talking-book libraries and nonprofit organizations, was formed in 1996 to harness the rich capabilities opened up by the transition from analog to digital technology to ensure that all published information is available to people with...