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Office + OpenDocument, Never Say Never

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

barryfreed writes "There's a blog entry by Andy Updegrove at ConsortiumInfo.org that says Microsoft has officially stated to him that support of OpenDocument in MS Office could happen. Microsoft sent the statement in a response to an article Updegrove wrote called Massachusetts and OpenDocument: A Brave New World?"

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  1. OpenDoc by russellh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dont' call it OpenDoc...

    sigh...

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    must... stay... awake...
  2. Re:Support will be useless for the most part by generic-man · · Score: 4, Informative

    Office 12 will not write .doc by default, but rather an XML-based format called .docx. More information is available at the Microsoft Office XML Formats blog.

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  3. FOr all you Office users... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 4, Informative

    JUST DO IT. Go to http://www.openoffice.org/ and download it. It installs cleanly, uninstalls cleanly, and does not interfere at all with your current install of MS Office (just choose "NO" when asked if you want to link OpenOffice to MS Office file types).

    Use it, and I bet most, if not all of you, will find yourself not needing MS Office.

    Oh, and try that Save to PDF button. Yum.

    Good night, and good luck!