Microsoft later this month plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format. Next year, the Open XML Translator project, done primarily by developers at French company Clever Age, intends to...
Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word-processor documents in two different formats. A Microsoft-sponsored open source project is expected to today...
The conversions will be based on Microsoft's Open Office XML, the XML-based file formats that will be the default setting in Office 2007, due next year. Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, OpenDocument has emerged...
The converters, to be available on open source project hosting site SourceForge.net, let people open and save documents in either the Ecma Open XML formats or ODF. The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to...
Microsoft recently launched the Open XML Translator project so developers can create software that will convert Microsoft Office documents to OpenDocument, so they can be opened and saved in the OpenDocument Format.
When saved as an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file, the macros can more or less end up anywhere. A Microsoft spokesperson acknowledged the issue, but said it affects all XML-based data formats and is not specific to Office.
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