Group to develop Open Document Format plug-in for MS Office users

Posted by VISITOR on Oct 20, 2005 5:08 AM EDT
The Age; By Sam Varghese
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Software industry group Open Source Victoria has teamed up with technology company Phase N to develop a plug-in for Microsoft Office users to view documents in the Open Document Format.

The solution has been named OpenOpenOffice or O3.

"The major hold-out here is Microsoft, which refuses to support ODF - a decision that seems based on self-serving reasons, to protect the near-monopoly of their high-priced Office suite," Mr Zymaris said. "The ones who will suffer are the users."

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