Area residents were shocked to learn recently that the Davis Ridge clearcut contract had not only been opened, but was also closed in March — with no notice to adjacent landowners. This happened ...

A group that was set up to promote the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support of that file format in favor of a set of specifications developed by the World Wide ...

The office document wars keep getting stranger and more convoluted. Last week the OpenDocument Foundation announced it was abandoning the format its name is taken from, and instead will support the ...

Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues — but Microsoft refuses to admit that ODF has won the document ...

Shakespeare wrote that a rose called by any other name would still smell as sweet. Proponents of open source software and standardizing document formats might wonder whether the same sentiments apply ...