Microsoft Office 2013 will support ODF 1.2 format

Microsoft insists that his office suite Office will include support for the ODF 1.2 format and for editing PDF files. Will this mean a qualitative leap for those who use LibreOffice / OpenOffice? Will users of Windows finally save your files in ODF format y edit them en Linux without problems?

Microsoft Office includes ODF 1.1 support in Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft Word 2010, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. With the inclusion of ODF support in Office 2010, Microsoft added a file format selection screen that allows the user to select the file format. default file for these products.

Although Microsoft still lives in a universe where its products only need to interact with themselves, the company of our friend Bill Gates announced at the blog Microsoft Office 2013 official which in the Windows office suite version will be compatible with ODF 1.2 and Open XML documents.

In the next version of Office, we have added support for two complementary formats: the strict Open Document XML format and the ODF (Open) 1.2 format. Support for opening and editing PDF documents in Word and the ability to save it in any supported format has also been added. By adding support for these standardized document formats, Microsoft Office 2013 offers users more options for office document interoperability. Regardless of your preferred file format, the new Microsoft Office will give you more options for sharing, collaborating, and archiving office documents.

This is the third time in the year that Microsoft has moved toward platform interoperability. The first step was the support for the Ubuntu server on Windows Azure and the second, the release of a stable version and the update of Skype for Linux. In return, LibreOffice, which is the largest open source office suite, already supports native Microsoft Office formats and also supports their subsequent editing and creation of PDF documents.

Sure, there's also the "dark side" of Microsoft. Don't forget your intention to enforce your own "secure boot" implementation that would prevent dual boot or replace Windows 8 with Linux. On the other hand, those who remember the war that broke out a few years ago between Open XML and ODF may be skeptical, because Microsoft strongly opposed the acceptance of ODF as a standard.