Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 4, 2008 8:47 PM CST
ZDNet Asia; By David Meyer
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document format. The enhancements came out of the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII), a working group set up in March between Microsoft and companies such as Novell, QuickOffice and Dataviz. The object of the DII was to boost the interoperability between Office Open XML (OOXML) and rival XML-based document formats such as the open-source OpenDocument Format (ODF), which was already a ratified ISO standard.

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