Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 17.12.2008 10:24, Vikram Gaur a écrit : Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take care of that. Still if we want to compete with that we can convert openoffice.org to web version. Hi all, We had such kind of applications in France in the seventies with Minite

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
FYI, here's my (detailed) take on the issue: http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/12/17/some-thoughts-on-the-microsofts-implementation-of-odf/ Cheers, Charles. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openo

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:02 +, Richard Rothwell wrote: > 2008/12/17 Ian Lynch : > > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:54 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > >> Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take > >> care of that. > > > > That is like saying MS will take care of the desktop fo

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread John McCreesh
Or like what the o...@www project is doing? http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/ John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org On Wed, December 17, 2008 10:15, Vikram Gaur wrote: > That will not be an issue if we decide to do. > > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:02 +, Richard Rothwell w

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Vikram Gaur
That will not be an issue if we decide to do. On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:02 +, Richard Rothwell wrote: > 2008/12/17 Ian Lynch : > > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:54 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > >> Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take > >> care of that. > > > > That is

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Rothwell
2008/12/17 Ian Lynch : > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:54 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: >> Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take >> care of that. > > That is like saying MS will take care of the desktop for us! > > At the moment there are bandwidth limitations but they will g

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:54 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take > care of that. That is like saying MS will take care of the desktop for us! At the moment there are bandwidth limitations but they will gradually ease and those that go i

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Lars Noodén
Vikram Gaur wrote: > We should not consider what microsoft says. > Openoffice.org is certainly a better option now. Especially in regards to the loads of legacy formats that are now blocked by MSO. On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:27 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > We ought to be more cunning here. As

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Vikram Gaur
Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take care of that. Still if we want to compete with that we can convert openoffice.org to web version. On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:20 +, Ian Lynch wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:11 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > > We should not co

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:11 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > We should not consider what microsoft says. > Openoffice.org is certainly a better option now. The question is how to get all those MS Office users to know about it. As MS is about to launch a web version of MS Office what have we got to comp

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Vikram Gaur
We should not consider what microsoft says. Openoffice.org is certainly a better option now. On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:27 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hello, > > > Le 16/12/08 19:43, Lars Noodén a écrit : > > John McCreesh wrote: > > > >> "Microsoft wants the world to believe that in t

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, Le 16/12/08 19:43, Lars Noodén a écrit : John McCreesh wrote: "Microsoft wants the world to believe that in these enlightened days it operates an open Office policy to all comers... sort of. Ouch. The "sort of" part there refers to the DRM'd, MS-only, clunky PDF imitation X

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-16 Thread Lars Noodén
John McCreesh wrote: > "Microsoft wants the world to believe that in these enlightened days it > operates an open Office policy to all comers... sort of. Ouch. The "sort of" part there refers to the DRM'd, MS-only, clunky PDF imitation XFS. It looks like MS will try to piggyback an attack on Ado

[marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-16 Thread John McCreesh
"Microsoft wants the world to believe that in these enlightened days it operates an open Office policy to all comers... sort of. "And that’s why it’s decided to publish documentation that details its implementation of OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.1 support in MS Office 2007 Service P