![]() Some of the original developers of OpenOffice have built OX Documents from scratch in HTML5 and JavaScript. OX Text will also let multiple users view and edit documents simultaneously. "XML-based documents can be seamlessly read, edited, and saved back to the original format at a level of quality and fidelity previously unavailable with browser-based text editors." "A pioneering feature of OX Text is non-destructive support of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice or LibreOffice file formats," the company said today in an announcement. Open-Xchange CEO told the IDG News Service that 100 percent of Word documents' formatting is preserved and that OX Text can edit about 80 percent of a Word document's elements. OX Text can edit documents from Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. ![]() OX Text will also be released in early April under the GNU General Public License 2 and Creative Commons. Open-Xchange will make money by selling a supported version to businesses. OX Documents is in the early stages of development, with only a demo version of its word processor, OX Text, available beginning today.Ī usable version of OX Text is scheduled to be released next month, with spreadsheet and presentation software coming later this year. It's called OX Documents, and it comes courtesy of Open-Xchange, a company that previously built an alternative to the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server. Now there is an office suite that combines these browser-based and open source approaches into one. And LibreOffice, a descendant of OpenOffice, is providing a strong challenge on the desktop side. Google Docs built up a huge user base by providing a Web-based alternative to Microsoft. The productivity software market has several recent success stories, despite the continued dominance of Microsoft Office.
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