MS Office 12 To Utilize ODF?

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 28, 2005 @12:35AM from the humble-pie dept.

J. Random Luser writes "Groklaw is carrying a story about Microsoft quietly engaging a French company to develop Open Document filters for Office 12, due out mid-2006. The SourceForge project claims to be an import filter for MS Office, and that is how the developer describes it. But ZDNet quotes Ray Ozzie as talking about an export filter from MS Office, and this french blog takes Ozzie at his word. Ostensibly the tarball unpacks as OpenOfficePlugin, and SourceForge has the WindowsInstaller.msi listed as 'platform independent'." From the ZDNet article: "Ozzie told me that supporting ODF in Office isn't a matter of principle. Microsoft isn't opposed to supporting other formats. The company just announced support for PDF, and he added that the Open Office XML format has an 'extremely liberal' license."

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wooot fp by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-28 00:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Breaking News: Sulu comes out of the closet by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-28 00:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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The women will be happy... by TheRealMindChild · 2005-10-28 00:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

... I mean, office can now help them use their dildo more effectively via the Offline Dildo Functions (ODF)!

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it do the job by JohnLeFucker · 2005-10-28 03:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

i du know, i think Word is pretty fookin' perfect me.

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