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Article: Microsoft Documents its ODF Support.
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- Linux Gram
- Article date:
- December 22, 2009
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Ah, the Christmas spirit of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" must be wafting over Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft said Tuesday that to - wait, lemme quote - "help foster interoperability among office productivity applications," it's gone and published documentation detailing its implementation of the Microsoft-hostile Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 support that it's put in the beta Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is scheduled for release next year.
Microsoft, which has proven to be documentation-challenged, describes it as "an extremely valuable contribution to the pursuit of grounded, practical interoperability among applications" and feels so good ...