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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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