If you are interested in how the winds of change are progressing at Microsoft, there is an interesting article MS Converter Project by Andy Updegrove that gives an overview of the 200 or so items that have been published since Microsoft announced an open source Open XML/ODF Open office converter project on July 6.
The article includes an interesting prespective on why Microsoft took this route. I think the most interesting thing is that a decision like this is feasible within Microsoft, that there is a large enough pragmatic constituency within Microsoft pushing for a more open approach, as opposed to the traditional closed source way of looking at things.
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