Wednesday May 21, 2008

Office 2007 won't support ISO's OOXML

Reading the announcement that Microsoft will implement ODF in Office 2007, it's also interesting to read that they will NOT support the ISO version of OOXML in Office 2007.

Note that, for good reasons, also OpenOffice.org doesn't claim to support OOXML, but to implement import filters for the MS Office 2007 document formats.

The new filters will become available in OpenOffice.org 3.0, which is already available as a beta version.

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( May 21 2008, 09:14:30 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]

Microsoft to implement ODF in Office 2007

Here are the news!

Sure we can't know how good their ODF support will be, but it's great that they start a native implementation for ODF now, coming with SP2 first half of 2009.

Seems, for now, they only plan to have ODF for Word.

If this is not enough for you, you are still invited to use our free ODF Plugin for MS Office, which gives you high quality ODF support in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( May 21 2008, 08:51:17 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]