http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/22/eu.watching.ms.open.move/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0805/euflag.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />European Union officials will be watching Microsoft's open format support to ensure the developer's move remains honest, the European Commission said on Thursday. The regulatory body says it will specifically monitor the newly added support for the universal Open Document Format (ODF) to determine if it delivers on Microsoft's promises of interoperability with other programs, many of which alread... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/22/eu.watching.ms.open.move/ Thu, 22 May 2008 16:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/21/ms.office.supports.odf/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0805/office2007.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format (ODF) touted by OpenOffice, Sun's StarOffice, and other third-party tools as well as similarly universal document types such as PDF 1.5 and PDF/A. T... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/21/ms.office.supports.odf/ Wed, 21 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/06/ms.open.document.plans/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0803/interop.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft has launched what it calls the Document Interoperability Initiative, a program to test and improve how well certain document formats work across multiple platforms and operating systems. The company will host a series of lab events around the world for this purpose, and today met with other outfits such as Novell, Nuance and Quickoffice at a first event, which was set in Cambridge, Mass... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/06/ms.open.document.plans/ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:15:00 GMT