New Spreadsheets fun
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| Here's a sampling of what people have been asking for:
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| * support for Open Document Format (handy for those who use
| linux-based machines and Open Office products)
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-spreadsheets-fun.html
Google is part of the ODF alliance; just one among many countries and large
companies.
I had an argument just an hour ago.
- (*) Adamant $Colleague says: everybody uses PowerPoint, so it needs to be
used.
- Me says: it's proprietary, obscure, costly to access, non-standard (ODF is
the ISO standard), and it discourages open collaboration.
- Adamant $Colleague repeats (*) leading to a loop.
They are running out of 'ammunition' (defense/offense arguments), those
Windows sticklers...
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