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Rob Weir made a simple comparison between Microsoft’s OOXML and the current ISO standard ODF [via Truth Happens]. Both of these are file formats used when saving documents from office suite applications (e.g. MS Office 2007 saves in .docx format, OO.o Writer saves in .odt format). The purpose of having an open standard [...]

Finally, someone has developed a plug-in for OpenOffice.org that will allow you to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents in .*x format (e.g. .docx, pptx, etc.). If you’re not familiar, OpenOffice.org is a free software office suite that operates similarly to Microsoft Office except that it’s available on all operating systems, you don’t have to [...]