Microsoft, kings of irony, moved to the new Office Open XML document format with its new Office 2007 for Windows. It’s ironic, because the format, well, won’t really open on Mac OS X. Fortunately the Macintosh Business Unit inside MS is fighting the good fight, and in between latte-fueled coding runs on Office 2008, they put together a nifty little beta of a program designed to make Open XML more, well, open.
It’s got an amazing name, as well: the Microsoft Open Office XML File Format Converter for Mac. I would have added “2007 Home Edition” to the end to really make it an MS, but it’s a beta, so all in good time. The little program changes any .docx file into a charming and useful .rtf, OS X’s lingua franca. Nice work, folks.
Thanks, Tammy!
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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete’s particular Apple avocations are both around design–interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!
2 responses to “MacBU Releases Word 2007 Document Converter”
The installer installs a whopping 8500 files! Files I can’t find (the’re not in the app bundle) )and can’t remove from my system.