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Posted by Martin LaMonica
January 17, 2008 9:04 AM PST
Microsoft has made changes designed to make it easier to access the technical documentation for its older Office binary document formats and will sponsor an open-source project to map those binary formats to Open XML.
The moves are in response to requests from other participants in the standardization process that Microsoft is leading to make Office Open XML an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standard.