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Our Blogs Core Dump Microsoft delivers Open XML updates for Mac Office but no ODF support
Our Blogs Core Dump Microsoft delivers Open XML updates for Mac Office but no ODF support | Microsoft delivers Open XML updates for Mac Office but no ODF support |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 25 June 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 While Office 2004 users will no doubt welcome the simplification of working with Open XML documents created by colleagues and friends wielding Office 2007 or 2008, Microsoft's efforts to make Open XML an ISO standard left a nasty taste in some mouths. There were suggestions of "irregularities" in the voting process in some countries.InfoWorld recently quoted Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee as telling the Red Hat Summit "ODF has clearly won". McKee was referring to Microsoft's decision to add ODF support to Office 2007 in Service Pack 2, planned for 2009. There has been no indication yet that Office 2008 will also gain such support at some stage.
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