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Responding to pressure customers and governments, Microsoft has announced Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add support for the Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS).
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Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of the OpenDocument format as an international standard.
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