Open XML Finally Supported by MS Office

Steven Vaughan-Nichols covered the story for ZDNet. The tech war pitted Microsoft's own OpenXML document standard against Adobe's Open Document Format. The latest move by Microsoft will finally allow Office 2013 users to open PDF documents, edit them with Word, and save them to any format Office supports. It's been a long and winding road. Andrew Updegrove, a founding partner of technology law firm Geismer Updegrove, describes the battle lines as between the supporters of the Open Document Format - ODF for short - developed by OASIS, and the adopted by ISO/IEC, and a format developed and prom...