Microsoft To Cooperate In Building Office OpenDocument Support

[bktII]

"It looks like Microsoft Office will, after all, support the OpenDocument Format. Sort of.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190300744

Does this mean that we will finally be able to convert between OpenOffice Writer, Abiword and MS Office Word without formatting hitches? Even if it requires a little effort, this will be good. About time!

[sosaiso]

This is good news indeed.

[Lamehand]

I hope this will not only be for ms office word, excel has his problems too in OpenOffice.

[bktII]

-{ Quote: "I hope this will not only be for ms office word, excel has his problems too in OpenOffice." }-

Lamehand,

Great comment! Here is another link:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/070606-microsoft-to-integrate-opendocument-for.html

-{ Quote: "A final version of the Word translator will be available in late 2006, with Excel and PowerPoint translators to follow in 2007, Microsoft said. The translators will be backwards compatible, and users will be able to download free compatibility packs for "older versions" of Office, although Microsoft did not specify what the earliest version of Office it will support is." }-

[Lamehand]

That is good news bktII, having this will make (computer) life much easier.
Thanks for the link.

[sosaiso]

Now, no one can complain that Linux is not usable. Business enviroments can fully implement OO, without all the formatting uncompatibilities.

Very nice. I look forward to never booting into Windows for Office when this is developed.