The International Organisation for Standardisation is unlikely to adopt Microsoft Office Open XML format, now that it has approved the OpenDocument Format, according to analyst group Gartner.
Having an open, stable document format is necessary to preserve the world's information, top Sun Microsystems executives said on Wednesday.
The Public Record Office in Victoria (PROV) on Tuesday unveiled a digital archive of government documents dating back almost 200 years, with the project using 'open' formats to store data and avoid reliance on any particular software or hardware vendor.
A group of software developers have created a program to make Microsoft Office work with files in the OpenDocument format, a move that would bridge currently incompatible desktop applications.
Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said on Thursday that it has snapped up Writely, a maker of a Web-based word processor.
Microsoft says beta testing for Office 12 begins in November. Also, the company gets 120,000 requests a month from people who want to save their Office documents in PDF format, making it one of the most requested features.
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