I should have thought that, with the massive issues even Microsoft has of meeting the alleged standard they have set, it was fairly obvious why other software has not tried to meet it.
ODF works, is well-supported and even works in Microsoft Office so with respect the answer is to use ODF and not bother with the Microsoft formats at all. On 31/12/2010 11:27, Jaime R. Garza wrote: > 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 ***
