Office SP2 to Natively Support More Formats

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 …read more