Brian Jones just announced that Microsoft will provide ODF (OpenDocument Format) support for Office 2007. The support will be developed in form of an OpenXML-ODF translator. It is a seperate program developed as a sourceforge project with a BSD license. A prototype for Word 2007 is already available for download and a final version of that should be ready by the end of the year. Excel and PowerPoint support will follow in 2007.

For the full announcement, details and all links, see Brian’s blog post.