Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Montalbano, Elizabeth

Titel

Microsoft backs adding ODF to standards list

Ist Teil von

• Network World, 2007-05, Vol.24 (20), p.10

Ort / Verlag

Southborough: Foundry

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Days after declaring its intention to collect patent royalties aggressively from open source distributors, Microsoft backed adding Open Document Format (ODF) for XML, the document file format used widely in open source alternatives to Microsoft Office, to a list of business standards. Microsoft also said it will support Office 2007's default document file format, Open XML, for the list maintained by the American National Standards Institute, according to a press statement. The company said it supports ODF because businesses want choice and interoperability for deployed software.