Microsoft bows to public pressure!

Microsoft has bowed to the public's demand for OpenDocument support!

On 6 July 2006 Microsoft announced an open source project to write an OpenDocument plugin for Microsoft Office. We would like to thank all the thousands of people (12,000!) representing over 300,000 computers who signed the petition.

For some takes on this issue, see:

• Kicking and Screaming by Simon Phipps.
• Article at Groklaw by Pamela Jones.