Linked by Adam S on Wed 21st May 2008 19:28 UTC
According to BetaNews, Microsoft has announced that they will support OpenDocument (ODF) and PDF in Office 2007 SP2. This comes as a major victory not only for OpenOffice.org and its offshoots, but also for open source in general. Microsoft is planning on making Office 2007 SP2 available in the first half of 2009. 
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2006-01-16
Right.
Let's just think about the past. We had this before with Java. Microsoft told everybody about their great Java support and indeed included it in their development tools.
The result: MS's "java" had several proprietary extensions which made it incompatible to the standard. Sun had to fight MS in court for years to stop this crippled "support" which was just another attempt to keep MS' vendor lock-in. After that, you could see how much MS really cared for Java: They removed their support and instead created the competing .NET.
I expect them to do the same attempt on OpenDocument.
Edited 2008-05-21 23:28 UTC