Microsoft, the world’s largest software firm, on Wednesday released documents detailing its implementation of Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.1 to its Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is scheduled to release in 2009.
With this release, Microsoft expects developers to address interoperability issues between the ODF format and Open XML (OOXML). The notes would be available on the Document Interoperability Initiative site.
A Microsoft official told DNA Money, “By publishing notes on how we are implementing file-format standards in Microsoft Office, we are providing details that others can use as reference points for their own applications.”
The release would give a fillip to Microsoft’s case for pushing multiple standards for e-governance projects in India as more and more developers start working and enhancing the format and reducing the interoperability issues among the two popular standards.
The government’s draft policy favours a single standard for e-governance projects in the country, which could benefit single-standard supporters like IBM, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems.
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