electronista.com — Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format (ODF) touted by OpenOffice, Sun's StarOffice, and other third-party tools
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argylesocksMay 21, 2008
This is great news for me. I use OpenOffice, Lotus Symphony, Google Docs and Word between my workplaces and OOo/Word at home. Word is the weak link currently due to the lack of native ODF. I will feel a little better about using it now.
eldoo77May 22, 2008
Use the nice little "Reply button"... OK. Thanks.
gumbootMay 23, 2008
Apparently "formatAsWord95" was documented as part of the BRM process.
d4rkdrago0nMay 24, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/TC45-2006-50_final_draft.htm">http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_curren ...</a>there is the OOXML spec (much more documented and open than ODF)OOXML is more open that ODF is, so get off your high-horse and accept the fact Microsoft's trying to do some good.
argylesocksMay 26, 2008
I'm not going to install, nor am i allowed to install a plugin on every copy of ms word I use.
coldpocketsMay 27, 2008
Calm down...what are you even talking about? It costs $389.99 for full retail office 2007 professional. It's fine if you don't like the product, but frankly stop making stuff up! If you're not a home user, I'd assume you're using this in a business environment. $389.99 really isn't that much, if it saves your employees time, and takes less time to support. It's disturbing how fired up people can get over productivity software...
gotmilk4May 31, 2008
This is a BIG victory for the Open Source community - having a giant company like Microsoft breaking away from their own formats to support an open standard!?