Today, I read a news about Microsoft has been pressured by U.S Gov to offer Open Document Format(ODF) in his Office products. Actually,they already announced that their office products' format would be changed to open document before. But that is their own Open XML document format, not the ODF , a non-proprietary document format developed by a consortium of companies and they resisted to offer ODF. Today U.S gov has pressured directly on Microsoft and so it is not possible for them to refuse to offer ODF. But they said like they would develop tools to build a technical bridge between its own Open XML document format and ODF format. That means they won't adopt ODF format, they will just develop a translation tool to bridge with ODF.
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