Office SP2 to Natively Support More Formats
May 21, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
According to Richard Koman at ZDNet, in a recent phone call and press release from Microsoft, the Redmond giant made it official that in their upcoming Office SP2 release the productivity suite will make open document formats available natively from within the core application. No add-ons, updates or 3rd party apps required.
Big news on the open document format front: Microsoft announced (press release) minutes ago (actually about 18 hours early, since someone broke their embargo) that Office SP2 will include native, “first-class citizen” support for the open source Open Document Format, as well as Adobe’s PDF and the XML Paper Specification (XPS), as well as Redmond’s own OpenXML.
Although I’m already able to save to PDF in Office with the add-on available, as well as having the ability to print literally any document into a PDF format with installed 3rd party drivers, this is a HUGE deal in my opinion.
Great news, great news!
Office to support ODF, PDF as ‘first-class citizens’ | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com
