Kevin J. O'Brien of NYTimes writes: The company(Microsoft), under pressure from European regulators, national standards organizations and its own government clients, said it planned to give customers the ability to open, edit and save documents in Open Document Format — the main competitor to the Microsoft Word format — through a free update.
With the update, consumers will be able to save text documents in ODF format and adjust Office 2007 settings to automatically save documents in the rival format. Next year, Microsoft will also let consumers open and save files in Adobe<http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=ADBE> 's Portable Document Format 1.5 and PDF/A formats. The full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/technology/22format.html?th&emc=th Cheers, snkr --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
