[Cialug] Microsoft, our friend

[Todd Walton]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>> Microsoft will design new APIs for the Word, Excel and PowerPoint
applications in Office
>>  2007 to enable developers to plug in additional document formats
and to enable users to
>> set these formats as their default

What is meant by this?  How would an API allow me to plug in document
formats?  As in, I could make Word open my OO Writer documents if I
had the right plugin?

-todd