Linspire joins Microsoft in developing and deploying open source translators

[Posted July 2, 2007 by cook]

Linspire, Inc. has announced a collaboration with Microsoft involving document translation software. "Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems, today announced it will join the current efforts to improve the ability of OpenOffice.org users to work with the Office Open XML format by increasing the interoperability between ODF and Open XML. Linspire is joining with others who have signed on to this effort, including Novell and Xandros, to create bi-directional open source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between ODF and Open XML."

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