Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Jul 2006 10:41 UTC
Microsoft is giving in to the unrelenting pressure to be more open, particularly with regard to its Office Open XML file format and interoperability with the Open Document Format alternative. The company will announce July 6 that it has set up an open-source project to create a series of tools that allow translation between the OpenXML format and the ODF format, and which will be developed with partners. The Open XML Translator project, as it is known, will be posted on SourceForge, the open-source software development Web site. 
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2005-07-29
EXPORT is going to be the fun part, as there's still a LOT of MS word features that don't even EXIST in the ODF spec.
By that same logic, HTML export will be fun, because there are a lot of MSWord features that don't exist in HTML.
Yet MSWord still provides HTML support (you'll instead get a dialog warning you that some features used in your document aren't supported by HTML/whatever format you're saving as).
There's no problem with not being able to support everything MSWord supports in every file format MSWord imports/exports to. That's already the case. The problem is that Microsoft still refuses to "properly" support ODF, as it does for many other formats (HTML, WordPerfect, RTF...).