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KOffice To Use Open Office File Format

Posted by simoniker on from the k-for-double-good dept.

InodoroPereyra writes "This article at The Dot indicates that the KOffice developers decided to switch to the Open Office file format (OASIS) for their next major release. Excellent news both for KOffice, which will benefit from OpenOffice's excellent filters, and for the GNU/Linux Desktop users in general, who will benefit from a unified file format standard between these office suites."

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  1. Let's hope this will be the new trend by tsa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is very good news. Finally we have a choice between different word processors that use the same format. I think this can certainly help organizations in their decision to migrate or not to migrate to Linux. Let's hope this will be the new trend for the future.

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  2. Abiword by aderuwe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess we should be poking the Abiword developers now to do the same.