It has been widely publicised that Microsoft Office 2007 will support OpenDocument Formats (ODF) from Service Pack 2 (which is expected to be released in the first half of 2009).
What may not be so widely known is that Windows 7 (the latest version of Windows which was available as a free beta) ships with a copy of WordPad that supports ODF as standard as the screenshot shows below:
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This can only be seen as a positive step in the wider use of open formats and hopefully in Microsoft support for ODF.
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