Robert Scoble announced that Microsoft has opened up many of the Office 2003 file formats (for free), including:
- Excel 2003
- InfoPath 2003 (no idea what that is)
- Word 2003
- Visio 2003
Wow. That's pretty massive. There don't seem to be any harsh restrictions on the use of the reference schemas, either.
So does this mean Apple can add full inter-operability with Word 2003 documents for its Pages word processor? That would be great.
What about OmniGraffle? Can the OmniGroup now add support for the import/export of Visio binary files (the default save option, I believe)?
UPDATE: DrunkenBatman has a comparison of OpenDocument and the Microsoft XML schemas, and a much better analysis of the announcement than I could come up with. 
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