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Microsoft to Teach Open Documents to Speak Chinese

by Myk Gumapos — last modified 2007-05-22 07:29 AM

Contributors: Chris Maxcer

Microsoft is partnering with Chinese institutions to create an open source translator between China's Unified Office Format and the Ecma Open XML file formats. By working with China, Microsoft can further the Open XML standard, which was created by Microsoft and has been widely criticized as too large and unwieldy to encourage easily-built applications based on the standard.

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Source: LinuxInsider