Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Marshall on Sunday:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Swiss Cheese [for OOXML]
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Don't get me wrong, if Microsoft is for it, I'm probably
against it as I have no trust in them for much of anything
other than their ability to glom money. But I'm not entirely
convinced that this is not much more than a death struggle
for them. They might have a win on paper but I'm frankly
hoping that it is a hollow victory and that the actual users
are smart enough to reject their false, manipulated and
bloated standard anyway.
I doubt it, to be perfectly honest with you. If the CIO
decides that ODF is the way to go and Office does not support
it (it does not; in fact, Microsoft broke Sun's plugin with
DLL hell), then there's incentive to change. What's needed is
a mass migration at 'state-level'. Norway is a good example, I
think. Japan also.
Windows is more of a 'teaser' (free sample|) for Microsoft
Office, so it's Microsoft biggest (and one among the very few)
cash cows. Many divisions at Microsoft lose money as the
company starts to send its developers off shore or employ
foreigners for long, long hours. The next Windows, for
example, will be developed in India.
Interesting, I did not know that Microsoft has broken the ODF
plug-in, until you mentioned it and I searched for it:
http://blogs.sun.com/malte/entry/more_details_about_sun_s
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Q: Why doesn't it support Office 2007?
A: Well, basically, it does, but there is an issue in Word's 2007
Filter API handling. You can save to ODF, but when you try to
open ODF, Word ignores the installed filters and tries to open
with it's own filters. Of course Word can't, so you get an error
message "The Office Open XML file <name> cannot be opened because
there are problems with the content". This even happens if you
explicitly select the ODF filter! I hope Microsoft will fix this
issue with the next service pack. If not, we will work around
this bug by doing the same kind of integration like in PowerPoint
and Excel.
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Fortunately and accordingly, it works for earlier versions of
Office, which is the majority of Office versions world wide. By
breaking compatibility is further illustration that one is better
off looking for alternatives to their 2007 and above series of
products.
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