Slashdot | Microsoft to Open up Office Formats

Microsoft is opening it's office file formats! For those of us in the business app dev world, that's kind of exciting.

Microsoft will submit its Office file formats to Ecma International, the standards body, which will develop the documentation and make it available to the industry. The move is being supported by a number of organizations including Apple Computer, Barclays Capital, BP, Intel and Toshiba.