Microsoft is on a roll! After introducing, a ‘Creative Commons add-in‘ for Office Open XML, Microsoft now plans to get its Open XML translator tool as open source software pacing the interoperability.
Accompanied by government pressure for interoperability, Microsoft TechNet Security Center on Thursday announced the creation of the Open XML Translator Project. The project will create free software to allow Word, Excel and PowerPoint to handle documents in competing technology formats.
Jean Paoli, general manager of interoperability and XML architecture at Microsoft, said:
We believe that Open XML meets the needs of millions of organizations for a new approach to file formats, so we are sharing it with the industry by submitting it, with others, to become a worldwide standard. Yet it is very important that customers have the freedom to choose from a range of technologies to meet their diverse needs.
Maybe I am a bit cynical, but this seems to imply that the translation tools are designed to show us how the Open XML format is better than ODF. Isn’t it giving you fluffy feelings about Microsoft’s intent to support ODF?
Thanks: Jean Paoli
Via: Technewsworld
