Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:08 UTC
Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the so-called format war with OpenDocument is officially over. The winner, he says, is both. Jones made the statement in a blog post over the weekend following the release by Novell of an Open XML translator for OpenOffice. The plug-in enables the free, open source productivity suite to open documents created in the Microsoft format, as well as saving OpenDocument files into Open XML.
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.. as the state of CA decides that ODF is the official doc format.
http://osnews.com/story.php/17425/ODF-Threat-to-Microsoft-in-US-Gov...