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February 7, 2007 StarOffice plug-in for Office 2003 translates Word and ODF Writer files; spreadsheet, presentation translators set for April. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc., StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office 2003, spreadsheet, Microsoft Office, XML, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp.

February 7, 2007 States may follow Massachusetts in making the rival to Microsoft Word format the standard for all documents, spreadsheets and presentations. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Texas, agency, Massachusetts, Minnesota, bill, spreadsheet, document, presentation, standard, XML, state, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp.

February 28, 2007 Bill would require state agencies to adopt ODF as a standard and exclude the use of proprietary file formats. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, agency, bill, XML, California, Massachusetts, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

February 2, 2007 Microsoft-sponsored open-source group expected to release ODF translator for Word. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, SourceForge, Microsoft Office, open source, Novell Inc., general manager, Microsoft Office 2007, XML, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., document, Adobe PDF, format

October 13, 2006 First converter between Microsoft Word and OpenDocument format set for release later this month. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, ECMA, technical committee, XML, converter, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, specification, Microsoft Office 2007, project, Microsoft Corp., format, IBM Corp.

July 6, 2006 The software giant will sponsor an open-source project to create a converter between Open Office XML and OpenDocument file formats. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, XML, interoperability, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, project, general manager, Massachusetts, France, open source, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, IBM Corp.

April 21, 2008 Test shows that Word documents generated by today's version of Office 2007 don't conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the ISO. (By Peter Judge of ZDNet UK) TAGS: Alex Brown, Microsoft Office 2007, XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, Judge, specification, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., open source, blog

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