Microsoft announces support for ODF
Posted on | May 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Microsoft has announced support for the Open Document Format (ODF)
Quick, grab your tin foil hats and prepare to speculate because Microsoft has agreed to support the Open Document Format (ODF) in Microsoft Office. The move represents a huge shift from the company’s hard-fought battle to convince the world that its own OOXML format was superior to ODF.
But Microsoft seems to have had a change of heart and says that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the ODF, the default file format of OpenOffice, Sun’s StarOffice and more. More impressive than just support, the next revision of Office will allow users to set ODF as their default format for new documents.
However, Microsoft’s credibility regarding standards is not on top and the EU commission have announced that they will investigate MS ODF-support (article in swedish [Computer Sweden] or article in english [The Tech Herald]).