Microsoft OpenDocument support contest
Microsoft plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument. OpenDocument is a popular rival format.
Microsoft will launch the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net, a popular site for hosting code-sharing projects that use the BSD open-source license.
The software will allow people to use Microsoft Office to open and save documents in the OpenDocument, or ODF, format. The decision to manage the project is something new for Microsoft. Until now, it said that it would not natively support OpenDocument in Office, because of lack of demand. Instead, Microsoft would rely instead on third parties for format translators.
Microsoft isn't seeing a sharp uptick in demand for OpenDocument, but government customers urged the company to provide interoperability between Microsoft's own forthcoming XML Office formats and OpenDocument.
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