Roy Schestowitz wrote:
| The technical details are all on Rob’s blog, but in summary, when opening an
| ODF spreadsheet (.ods file) using Office 2007, it simply removes all existing
| formulas without telling anything to the user, leaving only the values in
| cells (results of formulas evaluation, previously stored in the document). If
| a user wants to test the ODF support in Office, and without giving due
| attention, save an existing spreadsheet, will overwrite the document removing
| all the formulas (as if you were writing a table). I saw absurdities in life,
| but nothing compared to this.
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http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html
Oh, the standards bodies and antitrust regulators are going to love
this. This in itself ought to be worth half a billion in fines.
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