Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
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| The project will also be posted on Sourceforge, a popular
| open-source project hosting site. A beta version of initial
| converters is expected at the end of July and will become a
| final product early next year.
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http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+support+Chinese+document+standard/2100-7344_3-6185016.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/23jl5a
Catchup only. ODF has been there for quite some time, but Microsoft prefers
compatibility with a lockin and monopoly enabler.
Related:
China has its own open document format
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| Put this in your pipe and smoke it: China has its own open document
| format, the Uniform Office Format (UOF), that they are working to
| harmonize with ODF...
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| All the plotting and planning here in the US was for absolutely
| nothing. ODF wins.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061108134931144
Converter Enables Conversion Between ODF & Chinese Document Format (UOF)
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| Peking University recently released a program to convert office
| documents between OpenDocument Format and the Specification for
| the Chinese office file format based on XML (UOF for short).
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/77350/index.html
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