:Microsoft Releases Updated Office-OpenOffice XML Translator...
Microsoft Releases Updated Office-OpenOffice XML Translator... Mar 7, 2008, 17 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6355 reads) (Other stories by Paula Rooney)
"Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability--and more patents to protect that IP.
"At an event in Cambridge, Mass., Microsoft's interoperability chief Tom Robertson announced the document interoperability initiative, availability of version 1.1 of the OpenXML/ODF translator in conjunction with Novell and plans to release a beta version of documentation for more than 30,000 protocols within two months..."
