My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

Novell is adding open-source Open XML format reading and writing functionality to OpenOffice.org.

OASIS calls for OpenOffice XML spec An array of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new open-source standard to handle desktop application documents.