Erik writes: > ... Right now Microsoft has a choice. Rework M$ > Office such that it will happily and effectively inter-operate with > other office productivity suites, or stop selling M$ Office in Europe. > Difficult decision, since an inter-operable M$ Office is an M$ Office > your company can finally afford to replace with OpenOffice.org, and > not selling office in Europe will lead to a slow but steady loss of > market-share that will have the same effect.
I thought that the new .docx etc. format solved this problem for them in Europe. It is (supposedly) a standard format that everyone can utilize. Openoffice and NeoOffice already do. Is there some other barrier to inter-operation? --henry schaffer P.S. To look more closely at the .docx format, rename the file to .zip and then unzip it - and you'll see the separate files making up the package. > ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
