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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