
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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2007-02-22
All this article is saying is that a converter between two file types was created.
This is nothing special nor unique; any creative program (word processor, graphics program, music player, etc.) will be able to open from and save to dozens of formats.
Edited 2007-03-05 23:49