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Re: Microsoft botches ODF support -- Part III: "This is not interoperability, it’s an attack on the very concept."

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____/ Richard Rasker on Wednesday 20 May 2009 21:41 : \____

> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18317
> 
>  "In short, Microsoft managed to reduce interoperability between office
>   productivity software by their implementation of ODF inside SP2.
>   ...
>   [Microsoft] are right about the ODF standard of course. It is missing a
>   proper definition of spreadsheet formulas. This is the truck-sized hole
>   that Microsoft drove through in their implementation. Sure Excel saves
>   formulas in ODF documents, just in a separate  namespace where no other
>   application is currently designed to look for them. The result is that
>   anyone trying to open an ODF spreadsheet created in Excel will have it
>   rejected. Excel reading an ODF spreadsheet created by another application
>   does something worse, it will use the last value for the data in the
>   spreadsheet cell that should be governed by the formula. The formulas
>   themselves are silently dropped.
> 
>   Yet Microsoft Office SP2 claims to have a fully compliant version of ODF,
>   and that’s probably true, as defined by the specification. It’s just
>   completely useless at interoperating with other vendors’ products. This is
>   not interoperability, it’s an attack on the very concept."
> 
> Ah, you can trust good 'ole Microsoft ... to screw any standard in order to
> try and consolidate their monopoly.

Some people ask if the regulators will step in.

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