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Microsoft completes work on their Open XML Translator

Software giant Microsoft has said that they have finished work on the Open XML Translator in collaboration with their partners.

This translator is an add-on for their Microsoft Word application and is being made available for download for free.

The company had placed the project on the SourceForge website to invite open source contributors to work on this project. They aimed to create a series of tools that allow translation between the Open Document Format and its Open XML file format.

The source code of this tool is being offered under the BSD license.

The second phase of this project has now started and they are now working on developing translators for Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations.

Jean Paoli, the general manager for interoperability and XML architecture at Microsoft spoke on these initiatives: “We are also going to do the same thing for Excel and PowerPoint. That’s the reality here. The technology is so good that Novell is going to use it in their version of OpenOffice. At the end of the day that’s called interoperability between two office suites.”

Checkout: OpenXML Translator (ODF Add-in for Word)