[odf-discuss] MOOX on Macs in Mid 2007

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>From today's XML.org daily newslinks:

Office 2007 For Mac Planned For Mid-2007
Andy Patrizio, Internetnews.com <http://internetnews.com/>

Outside of Apple, the biggest Macintosh developer is none other than
Microsoft. Granted, the 180 developers in the Macintosh Business Unit,
or Mac BU as Microsoft likes to call it, is a pittance compared to the
5,000 working on Vista. But Microsoft's continued support of the Mac
(over 20 years and counting), through lean times and lawsuits, is
impressive. Earlier this year at MacWorld, Microsoft promised it would
support the Mac for at least five more years. Its next big release will
be Office 2007 for Macintosh, due around six to eight months after the
release of the latest Windows version of Office expected in January.
Development of the Mac version of Office 2007 couldn't even begin until
recently. The BU recently hit a milestone of converting all of its
Macintosh application code to Apple's Xcode, the Macintosh platform for
developing a single set of binaries that are compatible with new Intel-
based Macs as well as older PowerPC-based machines.  The move to Xcode
means that Microsoft's Mac group can now start to move over to the Intel
architecture. However, it does not mean that the Mac unit will simply
take the code developed for the Windows version of Office and port it
over. "It won't be exactly the same experience. There is not 1:1 parity
between the two, but we work to make sure there is a high degree of
compatibility," said Sheridan Jones. "A PC customer can sit down at a
Mac and have a familiar experience, but it won't be identical." There
will be some Windows Office code used in Office 2007 for the Mac, but
only select pieces, said Jones. A good example is the file formats.
Office 2007 is moving to XML file formats, so Mac office 2007 will pick
up the same file formats to maintain compatibility.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3633326

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