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MS to Support Chinese Document Format
24 May, 2007, 6:00 pm IST | by
Priyanka Pradhan
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Microsoft has announced a collaboration with the Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) to create an open source translator project between China's Unified Office Format (UOF) and the Ecma Open XML File Formats. The company has also announced the beta release of translation tools for Windows XP, and the 2003 and 2007 versions of Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office PowerPoint as part of the Open XML Translator project, which was launched in July 2006. Microsoft plans to develop and license the UOF translation tools as open source software, and ultimately make them available as free, downloadable add-ins for Microsoft Office Word 2003 and 2007 customers from SourceForge.net. These tools will also be available for use with other individual and commercial projects across the industry. Microsoft believes the tools will benefit Microsoft Office customers in China who need to work with the UOF standard. A preview of the UOF translator tools will be released on SourceForge this summer, with final versions expected early next year. Further details on the UOF SourceForge project are available at http://uof-translator.sourceforge.net. Jean Paoli, general manager of Interoperability and XML Architecture at Microsoft said, "Our customers have told us their data needs can't be addressed by a one-format or one-standard-fits-all approach. Everyone wants to use their data in slightly different ways. That’s why we are enabling customers to pick from whatever format they want to use with their Office documents — whether it's ODF, Open XML, PDF, or new standards like UOF." The translator tools themselves will be developed and tested by leading Chinese independent software vendors and academic institutions such as the Beihang University, Beijing Information Technology Institute (one of the co-creators of the UOF Chinese standard), Tsinghua University and LitSoft (a member of Lenovo Group). |
Tags: Microsoft , Ecma Open XML File Format , Unified Office Format
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