edafe.org » ooxml http://edafe.org edafe.org is the personal site of Edafe Knabe. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:24:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Office 2007 to gain native ODF support early next year http://edafe.org/2008/07/office-2007-to-gain-native-odf-support-early-next-year/ http://edafe.org/2008/07/office-2007-to-gain-native-odf-support-early-next-year/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:40:49 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=3144 Continue reading →]]> “Users will be able to set ODF as their default file formats under Office 2007, and Microsoft plans to continue support of the OOXML-ODF translator for those using older versions of Office.” Jacqui Cheng details Microsoft’s recent announcement to make Office 2007 compatible with OpenOffice.org.
Personally, I remain sceptical about Microsoft delivering on these promises. But genuine interoperability has to start from somewhere…
arstechnica.com

Users of Microsoft Office may also want to consider the Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office as an alternative solution.

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