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Document Interop Initiative
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"As the Regional Director for Romania, attending the Document Interoperability Initiative event in London helped me tremendously to broaden my vision over the issue of document interoperability. As a result of the London event, I am committed towards introducing the audience in this part of the world to the issue of document interoperability and raise the awareness on the related issues."
"Microsoft's transparency in documenting the details of how Office has implemented ODF and Open XML helps all implementers improve interoperability with Office.  We look forward to continuing to work with them on improving the interoperability of our products, and we encourage other implementers to participate as well."
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July 30, 2008

Redmond, Washington

Participants – which included Standards experts Patrick Durusau and Dennis Hamilton, ISVs John Head of PSC and Jesper Lund Stocholm of Cyber IT, and major implementers including Novell and other vendors - tested and provided collective feedback on Microsoft’s implementation of the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 standard into Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, participating in hands-on demos of the ODF support in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and graphics. Discussion centered around challenges inherent in implementing standards, such as what to do when the common practice differs from the specification.


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