Financial Times: “[Microsoft will] develop tools to build a “technical bridge” between its own Open XML document format and the OpenDocument format (ODF).”
Brian Jones from the Office team writes, “We’ve talked a lot about the value the Open XML formats bring, and one of them of course is the ability to filter it down into other formats. While we still aren’t seeing a strong demand for ODF support from our corporate or consumer customers, it’s now a bit different with governments. We’ve had some governments request that we help build solutions so that can use ODF for certain situations, so that’s why we are creating the Open XML Translator project.” The official press release from Microsoft is here.
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