Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

XPS and the Office Interoperability Announcement

Adrian Ford on XPS et cetera — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:54:17 GMT

Earlier today, the Office team announced that Microsoft will expand the range of formats supported in

Microsoft Announces Support for More Document Format Standards, including ODF

Eric White's Blog — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:13:40 GMT

Today, Microsoft announced support for more document format standards, including ODF, PDF, and XPS. Doug

ODF în Office 2007 SP2

Weblogul lui Zoli — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:56:10 GMT

Formatele de documente ODF 1.1 (utilizate în OpenOffice sau Symphony) vor fi suportate (read-write) în

Office 2007 SP2: arrivano XPS, ODF e PDF per tutti

Blog Team TechNet Italia — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:57:02 GMT

La giornata di ieri (in realtà in Italia era già sera) è stata movimentata da una notizia

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Andy Updegrove — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:05:54 GMT

Gray, thanks for this detailed report. This is one of the most frank entries I've read at a Microsoft blog, and I think it's quite helpful.

Andy

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Jean-Philippe Martin — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:41:19 GMT

This is a really great and big news for the Web and the Future. With IE8 that will be supporting by default W3C standards I think Microsoft I showing that it now understand that the Web is something bigger and that it will last longer than every other company on earth, even them.

I wish it will be done right but with the focus of the whole industry and the EU, I think Ms don't really have a choice now that it made this annoncement.

By the way, I work in a big utility company. Office 2007 was a big No from the start (too many changes, not enough value). But with this annoncement I think that decision could change.

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Louis Gutierrez — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:28:27 GMT

Quite exciting. This move is something worth cheering - you will enjoy the enthusiastic hopes and best wishes that a diligent effort towards implementing these standards with streamlined ease and high fidelity deserve.

Save as ODF (e non solo!)

Welcome to MClips — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:30:24 GMT

Sono appena rientrato da una trasferta di lavoro a Roma, non ho avuto modo di collegarmi in questi due

微软Office将支持ODF文档格式

Joycode@Ab110.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:57:41 GMT

微软将在Office2007SP2中发布对 ODFv1.1 文档格式的支持。官方文章： http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:25:41 GMT

I feel completely cheated by the purchase of a current shipping modern Microsoft product i.e. Office 2007. I hate Microsoft for not supporting ISO 29500 in Office 2007 and making us upgrade to a newer version of Office. I sincerely wish there will an overwhelming outcry now regarding this and Microsoft will reconsider its decision.

One more step in the right direction, native ODF support in Office 2007 SP2

Pranav ... Blogging — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:07:18 GMT

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re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Gray Knowlton — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:56:45 GMT

Andy, thanks for your comment. I aim to please in the area of being candid :).. but I do hope to unmask the decision making a bit. People tend to overthink our motivations a lot. It is good to pt things straight from the beginning.

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Gray Knowlton — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:59:45 GMT

Jean-Philippe, I definitely agree with you that a quality ODF implementation is very important for us. Partially because a lot of people will be watching, but also generally because we are interested in providing quality software... it's not different from other functionality in this sense.

I am hopeful that folks are clear that the implementation work is hard work; interoperability in the current context of product implementations is no easy task. We will have to rely heaviliy on the community to ensure that we have the best solution possible. It is going to be an interesting time.

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Gray Knowlton — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:10:04 GMT

Mr. Gutierrez,

A lot has changed since those early days where we were working with the Commonwealth on becoming more open and getting behind the 2003 reference schemas. As you're probably well aware, the conversations around product usage and enabling collaboration are complex; we're glad to come to the table with a set of increased options for simplifying the problem.

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Gray Knowlton — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:16:22 GMT

Anonymous... you can take comfort knowing that we actually support a substantial portion of the upcoming IS29500 already.

More importantly, perhaps, is the understanding that IS29500 does not yet exist, and documents you currently create in Office 2007 will be fully compatible with the existing compatibility pack as well as Office 14.

When the specification is published by ISO (and ISO does own that timeframe, we're not involved), we will have a sense of the full scope of change involved, and we can work within the community to figure out how to approach it.

http://idippedut.dk/post/2008/05/microsoft-steps-up-to-the-task-at-hand.aspx

TrackBack — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:23:44 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support more file formats

beqiraj.net — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:14:13 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support more file formats

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Dave S. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:43:41 GMT

Today I copied a segment from a Powerpoint slide. It was numbered "3". I pasted it into Outlook, which renumbered it "1".

It's harder to communicate using MS Office tools when the tools themselves take charge. OK - it's really the decisions made by the programmers that were realized in the code.

It's been 20 years and auto-numbering doesn't work right. Sigh. The auto-bullets are no better.

Regarding the future of Open XML

Gray Matter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:03:39 GMT

As I troll the blogosphere and reporting on Open XML and ODF, I notice a question has surfaced regarding

Moving the ball forward on interoperability

Gray Matter — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:46:17 GMT

Just referring back to our interoperability principles for a moment , and the ongoing commitment to them

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will support more file formats

beqiraj.net — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:43:00 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will support more file formats

Gartner: Open XML “would have been a better choice than ODF as the single standard”

Gray Matter — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:03:53 GMT

Gartner has published a report about document format standards . They have pointed out a number of key

Office 2007 SP2 is on its way

Office Resource Kit Blog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:40:12 GMT

Office Sustained Engineering announced the upcoming release of Office 2007 SP2 here . You can also view

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

David Walker — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:10:43 GMT

Any comments about the re-addition of PDF support? I understand that Adobe originally wanted Office 2007 to NOT be able to create PDFs; what has changed now?

re: Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2

Gray Knowlton — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:36:36 GMT

Hi David,

I can't really speak for Adobe, but I think it's fair to say that given the thousands of free tools out there that create PDF documents, it seems a little silly to argue about at this point.