OpenOffice News and Articles

The technical boards of ISO and IEC have dismissed appeals by four of its members against adopting Microsoft's Office Open XML formats as an ISO/IEC International Standard.

The Open Office project has just announced that the latest 2.4 version of the free office suite removes a number of security issues.

According to reports, the department of education in the Australian state of New South Wales has decided to install Open Office on its 41,000 computers.

It's official: Microsoft's Office Open XML format (OOXML) has been accepted as a new standard at a second hearing

Open Office 2

The Open Office project has just released the final version 2.4 of its free office software.

In his blog, Avi Alkalay, an Open Standards, Open Source and Linux advisor at IBM Brazil, reports on the official Brazilian vote, which was decided by consensus of the entire technical team, and quite firmly says that OOXML does not deserve to be an international ISO standard.