Hello, I just want to inform you all that docx, pptx, xlsx, etc is not the same as the "ISO OOXML" which was saddly accepted as an "ISO standard". The currently used OOXML format is a completely proprietary XML based format. And the specification of the OOXML "ISO Standard" is so complex and long that not even MS has been able to implement it, and they are promising they will implement it for MS Office 2014, so there you you go, yet another MS format for 2014!
The next MS format, which is supposed to be "completely specified in the open", still has proprietary hooks, like WordArt, and such stuff that remains proprietary but the base is completely specified in the open. The specification is so long and complex, that there will be a lot of time before someone can even start to be really compatible to the files generated from MS office 2014. In the other hand, MS already supports ODF, read & write, so if we can, why the %$&%$ wouldn't we support the MS formats? Don't you understand that there are customers for every LO user that use MS Office and they need to exchange information. And since MS office can read and write ODF, why would an enterprise customer choose LO or even OO? I work in a big German company, and I have tried to make ODF, OO/ LO relevant, but nobody cares because a great majority of our customers use MS Office and MS Office formats. What is wrong with you guys? To be a religious freak doesn't help for the adoption of open standards and open source. Cheers! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***