On Thursday 25 December 2008 22:27, Shamit Verma wrote: > > M$ scores in Office due to its proprietary document formats. Does > > OO have access to the entire document format as M$ has? Once it > > enters the ODF arena, it could be evaluated better against OO. > > Same with all other graphics softwares that use closed > > restrictive formats. > > Format for new version of Office is as open as it gets.
You have not followed the OOxml wars then. > Its XML, zipped and renamed to docx etc. Full documentation is > available on MSDN site. Even Office 2k , 2003 lets you use XML > instead of native format. suggest you read about what exactly is the problem with wrapping a closed partially documented and misdocumented fromat in xml and calling it open -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
