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.
Jonathan Allen is discussing.
Jonathan Allen 12:29 am on May 5, 2009 Permalink
Something that should get more attention is that OpenFormula, which defines spreadsheet formulas in ODF, is still incomplete after 3 1/2 years. There hasn’t even been any status updates since late 2006.
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/About_OpenFormula