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Re: Word better at ODF than KOffice!

* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Interesting study on document compatibility among different programs:
>
>    <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1201708>
>
> <snippage>
>
>  47   TextEdit
>
> For OOXML documents, here are the results, again using 100 for perfect:
>
> 100   Office 2007
> 100   Office 2003

Is that ECMA OOXML, or Microsoft OOXML, though?

>  99   Office 2008 Mac
>  96   OpenOffice
>  95   Pages
>  84   WordPerfect
>  83   ThinkFree Office
>  43   TextEdit
>
> So much for Roy's FUD that it is impossible for anyone to implement 
> OOXML.  OpenOffice and Pages both have done a better job of implementing 
> OOXML than anyone outside of OpenOffice and Sun has done at implementing 
> ODF.

Uh, doesn't what you posted actually /support/ (if only a little bit)
what Roy said?

"TextEdit"????

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