A Microsoft press release has announced version 1.0 of the first Microsoft-funded translator between OpenDocument format (ODF) and Office 2007's Open XML document formats. It says:
The completed Open XML Translator enables conversion of documents from one format to the other and is available for anyone to download and use at no cost. When plugged into Microsoft Office Word, for example, the Translator provides customers with the choice to open and save documents in ODF rather than the native Open XML format. The Translator may also be plugged into competing word processing programs that use ODF as the default format to open and save documents in Open XML.
Excel and PowerPoint translators will follow.
Brian Jones, Microsoft's program manager for Open XML Formats, also announced it onhis blog.
