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Microsoft Love Open Source

By the end of February 2008, Microsoft course in a new way, through the new principles for interoperability. The Redmond Company delivers of a bridge to connect its proprietary solutions and standards, and the third-party software and formats. One of the first measures in the new orientation is the presentation of the document interoperability initiative. The new initiative, from the viewpoint of Microsoft, to support and promote the election of the user, when it comes to the formats for documents. The document Interoperability initiative aims at nothing less than the central point to the document implementations interoperability.

"Microsoft believes that the industry's responsibility to collect
the consideration of the interests of users in the achievement of greater interoperability and efficient exchange of data between distributed document format implementations. The laboratories are designed for the technical staff in order to cope with their sleeves and test the interoperability between implementations of formats, and dealing with the problems that are either in the implementation or in the translation of technologies needed for the work in The formats " , Jean Paoli, General Director of interoperability and XML architecture at Microsoft.

The first laboratory for the interoperability of Microsoft stands for a number of independent software vendors together in Cambridge. Novell, Mark Logic, Quickoffice, DataViz and Nuance Communications with Microsoft began efforts to progress on the interoperability between Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and the Open Document Format (ODF). The laboratory is not focused exclusively on the Windows platform, but goes beyond that with a variety of operating systems, including the company from Redmond's Windows Mobile, but also the open-source Linux and Mac OS X Leopard, iPhone, Palm OS and Symbian OS.

Productivity is solutions in the market, OpenOffice, slowly but surely, as an alternative to Microsoft Office System. In the end there will be confrontation between the Open Document Format and Open XML. In an effort to show that he is for interoperability, the company from Redmond has been the construction of a translator between Open XML and ODF. Version 1.1 of the Open XML ODF for translators was made available from 6 March 2008, and combines the Excel and PowerPoint formats with their colleagues.

"Microsoft recognizes that users want to select the format of the document that best matches their needs, and that the suppliers have a responsibility to work together to ensure interoperability between different implementations of format. Document Interoperability initiative brings sellers together, the realization of the real world interoperability among the documents that the customer through the use of experimentation implementations, the construction of the consequences of conformity and the creation of documents formats to optimize the interoperability between the different formats. Under the interoperability, the principles that we have announced, on 21 February, this initiative will contribute to achieving our goal of recasting their business practices to meet the needs of interoperability our customers and the market, "said Tom Robertson, CEO, Interoperability and Standards Microsoft.

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