Microsoft backs Open Document format
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Microsoft today said it will support the Open Document Format, following pressure from governments all over the world that the software giant back the productivity standard.
The Redmond, Wash., company said it has formed the Open XML Translator project, an initiative to build a bridge between Microsoft's own Office Open XML document format and the ODF.
With Translator, Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint programs will be able to read documents created in ODF, which allows text, spreadsheet and presentation files to work with one another even if they were created with different vendors' applications.