Today is a good day for interopability

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Computerworld wrote:

February 15, 2008 (Computerworld)

Microsoft Corp.

on Friday said it has made technical information about all of itsOffice binary file formats openly available to outside softwaredevelopers, while promising never to sue them for patent violations.

The specifications for the binary formats used by Word, Excel and

PowerPoint

files will be made available under Microsoft's

Open Specification Promise

(OSP) program, which the software vendor has used to publicly release a variety of its technical specifications.

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Finally, OpenOffice and other suits will have the assurance they need to seamlessly interop with older Office file formats--figure proper margins, font attributes, and other formatting, which until now often appears mangled when accessing documents between office suits.

 

Good deal.

 

 

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