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Story: Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push

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Posted by: Mark (Tuesday 29 January 2008, 6:13 PM)

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File Formats - MS v OpenOffice

For older versions of MS formats Microsoft made the National Archives (UK) use Vista running Windows Virtual PC running Windows 3.11 running Office 95 (which all require licences per machine). After blocking older file formats in Office 2003, they obviously think that this costly, unstable option is acceptable.

Open Office Writer opens and saves in the following formats:

OpenDocument (ODT), Open Office (SXW), MS Word 6.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003 XML, HTML, RTF, TXT, AportisDoc (Palm), DocBook, Pocket Word (PSW).

Open Office Spreadsheet opens and saves in the following formats:

OpenDocument (ODS), OpenOffice (SXC), MS Excel 5/95/97/2000/XP/2003 XML, Data Interchange Format, dBASE (DBF), StarCalc 3/4/5, SYLK, CSV, HTML, Pocket Excel (PXL).

More than enough for most people, and it's free (and so is Sun's Star Office now thanks to Google).

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