Open XML news from FierceCIO

When Office 2007 was released at the end of last month, most folks reacted with either excitement, apathy or a mix of the two (if such a thing as "excited apathy" even exists). There is one group of Office users, however, for whom the launch was a reason for concern: users of Office 2004 for the Mac. You see, the newest iteration of Office isn't slated to hit the Mac for another six to …

Last week, the International Organization for Standardization published the OpenOffice Open Document Format (ODF) as an official standard. ODF is an XML-based open format for text, spreadsheet, database and slide-show presentation files. Sound familiar? That's because Microsoft's Office Open XML is basically the same thing. It's up against some stiff competition but …