Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF
I just read this on Slashdot and wondered what people thought of this seemingly bizarre move from MS?
After campaigning for OOXML so vigorously, MS have now announced that they will be issuing an update to Office 2007 to add support for OASIS ODF 1.1.
This won’t be available as the default format for saving, but even so – making support available for ODF and not supporting OOXML (that won’t come until a future version) must fatally damage OOXML as a standard.
Hopefully the delay in OOXML support and the emergance of ODF support as standard in an MS Office suite will herald new support by the public sector for the ODF format.
Who knows, the next time you visit your favorite government website you might be able to grab a copy of taxreturn.odt
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June 26th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
How can I reinstall office with old license after resetting my p.
July 26th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Please help me install Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007. I have tried twice. It is not a success because MS says Error 1311 E:\PA561401.Cab MS says I must find this source file in order to download completely. I searched my computer files several ways and cannot locate this file.. If I don’t have the required file how do I get it? What do I do next?
December 18th, 2009 at 2:36 am
yes, as usual the Bootcamp