Microsoft Relents to Pressure on OpenDocument Format
From the Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft will offer free software that will let Word, Excel and PowerPoint handle documents in the rival OpenDocument Format promoted by Sun Microsystems, IBM and others. Microsoft has been promoting a format called Open XML. Over the past year, the company's rivals have sparked a debate over the two technologies, arguing that documents, such as government archives, that need to be saved for many decades and beyond shouldn't be entrusted to a technology owned by a single company such as Microsoft.