"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..."
