A Microsoft spokesperson acknowledged the issue, but said it affects all XML-based data formats and is not specific to Office. You can identify by a couple of hundred bytes that it's a Word document. In the case of mail gateway filtering, systems...
The goal is to have a Word plug-in for Office 2007 by the end of this year and translators for Excel and PowerPoint next year, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of interoperability and XML architecture at Microsoft.
Next year, the Open XML Translator project, done primarily by developers at French company Clever Age, intends to create converters that can translate between Microsoft's Excel and PowerPoint and the corresponding ODF file formats, Jones added.
The same group of Microsoft partners will now start work on code to translate file formats between Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation software and the corresponding ODF files, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of...
Microsoft Office 2003, currently deployed in the majority of agencies, will support the Open XML format through the use of the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack," according to the draft policy. Agencies will have the ability to use either ODF or...
The filtering engines are far smarter when it comes to looking for patterns within Word, PowerPoint on Excel documents than PDFs," he said. Anybody can open and make changes to a Word or PowerPoint document sent over email.