____/ Gordon on Thursday 07 February 2008 19:40 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Related:
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>> Microsoft Breaks the [ODF] Plugins
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>> | Sun is having trouble because Microsoft is breaking interoperability
>> | deliberately through hi-jinks with the Dynamic-Link Libraries ("dll") in
>> `----
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>> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/microsoft-break.html
>
> Sorry Roy - that link is over six months old, and I have just opened an
> ODF document in Word 2007 SP1 with no problems at all.
Yes, but it was a major incident at the time... Even made the front page of
some major sites. Conveniently, Microsoft needn't bother to check
compatibility with such 'evil' plugins.
> However, I /do/ think that the OOXML thing is very dangerous...
Just seen a comment somewhere and it said that rather than fix the security
issues, "typical Microsoft" just disables the whole feature. Everything for a
forced upgrade...
How true.
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