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Computing News | Next Office 2007 service pack will include ODF, PDF support options
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 00:38 Thursday, 22nd May 2008 GMT
Source: Beta News
In a breakthrough development, Microsoft has announced its future editions of Microsoft Office, beginning with Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, will enable users to choose OpenDocument support as an alternate default option.
Microsoft's director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow, and its senior product manager for ISO 29500-based products, Doug Mahugh, jointly confirmed the news to BetaNews personally.
Beginning with Office 2007 Service Pack 2 -- which for the first time, Microsoft acknowledged this morning will be available during the first half of 2009 -- users will be presented with an option, both during installation and through options settings, enabling them to choose ODF as the default save format for spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. In a remarkable move that also shows how much Adobe's format has become an independent standard in its own right, PDF format will also be offered as an optional default, as well as Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (XPS) portable format.
Also learned that Microsoft intends to publish an open API for developers of document format extensions, or developers of their own original formats -- should such a cottage industry ever emerge -- that would enable them to plug their own XML schemas into Office 14, letting users install those formats as Office's default save format in place of ISO 29500, ODF, XPS, and PDF. In the meantime, the company will be working on its own loading and saving options for Office documents using the Chinese national standard UOF format, perhaps using this API for the job.
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