Novell to support Microsoft Office documents

Novell said Monday it is participating in an open-source project designed to bridge rival document formats and thus enable its OpenOffice.org customers to work with Microsoft Office documents. Novell, a business software maker, distributes its own edition of the open-source desktop productivity suite OpenOffice.

This is great… for Novell users. In the press release it makes mention that the code may be submitted to OpenOffice for consideration of inclusion. If that happens, then all Linux users would be able to read .docx files. OpenOffice themselves have something similar in the works though, so alternative OS users will not likely be in the dark either way.