atw: Re: Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 to include full ODF support

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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864
Jonathan

On Thu, 22 May 2008 17:33:29 +1000, "Jean Hollis Weber"
<jean05@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> For those of you who don't follow the document format wars as closely 
> I do, here is the latest news:
> 
> Microsoft said on Wednesday that it would move to provide support for 
> the Open Document Format in Office 2007 SP2 (due out in the first half 
> of 2009). Users will be able to open, edit, and save ODF and PDF 
> documents as well as set the software to automatically save documents 
> in those file formats by default.
> 
> Here is the official press release:
> Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office
> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx
> 
> --Jean
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