Microsoft Office to open up to rival formats
Microsoft Office to open up to rival formats
Boost for interoperability
By Charles Cooper – Published: Tuesday 16 December 2008
Microsoft plans to open Office to other file formats, a move the company hopes will placate government and business concerns about document interoperability.
Describing this as a step to foster greater transparency, Microsoft intends to document how it incorporated Open Document Format support into Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is still in beta. That product is expected to ship sometime in the first half of 2009.
Tuesday’s announcement concludes a pledge Microsoft originally made last spring to boost support for rival formats in Office. Read more
Microsoft to ‘webify’ Office (sort of)
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Mary-Jo Foley
October 28th, 2008
Microsoft to ‘webify’ Office (sort of)
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 9:09 am
Microsoft is finally doing what many have been clamoring for — making Web-based versions of its Office
apps available — but in a different way than expected.
As part of the Office 14 release wave, Microsoft is going to provide “Office Web applications,” which it is
describing as “lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These versions will allow
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users to access their documents via a Web browser on the PC, phone or other devices. Read more
