OpenOffice.org Italian Association Welcomes Microsoft ODF Natively Support

The Italian OpenOffice.org Association (PLIO), welcomes the fact that  Microsoft Office 2007  now natively support the Open Document Format, the file format for electronic office documents originally developed by Sun within OpenOffice.org and now ISO standard.

The association one year ago welcomed Microsoft’s decision to support ODF.

The Standards blog covers the story, speculating on why Microsoft do it, and why now.

Rob Weir analyzes in detail spreadsheets interoperability, OpenOffice.org Ninja also covers it.

Interoperability matters, and today users are the winners.