Thursday, July 12, 2007

MS makes another Linux friend

On July 10, Microsoft announced that <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2157208,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">Asian Linux distributor Turbolinux</A> is the latest Linux company to join its Ecma Open XML-Open Document Format Translator Project.

Unlike the earlier Microsoft/Linux partnerships--Novell, Xandros, and Linspire--there's no patent agreement or any other technical partnerships. This project seeks to create tools to build a "technical bridge" between Microsoft's Open XML Formats and ODF (Open Document Format).

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