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Microsoft to make an open source ODF translator

Microsoft to make an open source ODF translator

Posted Jul 6, 2006 19:44 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Microsoft to make an open source ODF translator by arcticwolf
Parent article: Microsoft to make an open source ODF translator

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Microsoft is a bit more "subtle". The converter requires .NET framework 2.0 and Word 2007 beta 2. Only conversion from ODF to MS Word is currently supported.

If you want your secretary with a modest Pentium MMX-166 and WinWord 6 to open ODF documents, you'll need to rewrite the whole thing.


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Microsoft to make an open source ODF translator

Posted Sep 14, 2006 10:38 UTC (Thu) by rovfrukt (guest, #6353) [Link]

Don't you scorn the power of MMX!

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