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| tracyanne May 20, 2007 12:52 PM EDT |
Quoting:Nick McGrath, director of platform strategy for Microsoft UK, told ZDNet UK on Thursday: "In a nutshell, ODF doesn't meet the needs of Microsoft applications." McGrath said that applications such as OpenOffice, which runs on ODF, would not fully support documents created in Microsoft applications such as Office 2007, which runs on the rival Open XML standard (OXML). Well that's unfortunate for all those people who are stuck with Microsoft Office. |
| NoDough May 20, 2007 3:21 PM EDT |
I didn't read the article, but this strikes me odd.Quoting:...which runs on ODF... Quoting:...which runs on the rival Open XML standard (OXML).How is it that the latter was labeled a "standard" and the former was not? |
| henke54 May 20, 2007 4:10 PM EDT |
Quoting:But the ODF Alliance's Marcich said that OXML itself is not compatible with some Microsoft products. "Even for Microsoft, there's no such thing as 100 percent backwards compatibility — it's not guaranteed in Office 2007," said Marcich. "So to say backwards compatibility is a weakness of ODF is somewhat odd."http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39287024,00.ht... ;-P |
| techiem2 May 20, 2007 4:56 PM EDT |
Quoting:"In a nutshell, ODF doesn't meet the needs of Microsoft applications." So what he really meant was: "ODF gives you choice and doesn't lock you into our programs and our programs only, and we can't have that." |
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