On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Nalin Savara <nsn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan <ven...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Mani A <a.mani....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Summary: Never even try to use M$ Office >> > >> > Excerpts from >> http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html >> > >> > "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. >> >> <snip> >> >> Deja Vu. Many years ago, they tried to do the same to Java. Old habits >> die hard. >> >> Venky >> > > Hmmm a interesting line of conversation... thanks for the great posts. > > I think I am now starting to understand the real grouse that the US > department of justice and european regulators had with M$. > <snip> also, it tells me why a Word document opened and saved on a Nokia E90 does not open in Microsoft Office 2007. Regards, NS _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
