Microsoft contributes to Apache POI project
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| Microsoft has announced that it will - with a European partner - contribute
| to an open-source project for reading and writing Excel, Word, PowerPoint and
| Visio files.
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| The Apache POI API is already used by various open source projects to handle
| Microsoft Office documents, but work is needed to add Office Open XML support
| as used by Office 2007 and 2008.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17314/1054/
When project don't want OOXML, Microsoft will shove it down their throat and
call it voluntary contribution. Context below.
Recent:
Let’s be clear: The Apache Software Foundation does NOT support OOXML.
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| Microsoft’s oversight of IBM’s denials is clearly not accidental. It is part
| of a well crafted and continuous disingenuous plan to convince NBs at all
| cost. There is already so much evidence of Microsoft going far beyond what
| most would consider normal lobbying behavior it is sickening. For one, I’m
| not ready to forget the case of the NGOs in India. Talk about dirty
| practices.
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| But what really is at the bottom of Microsoft’s claims is that basically any
| software that handles XML supports OOXML.
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http://lehors.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/lets-be-clear-the-apache-software-foundation-does-not-support-ooxml/
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