[discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-01 Thread Jamie Borg
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Opens_Office_File_Formats/1117692086 Does this new announcement mean anything for OOo.org developers able actually use the microsoft XML documentation to develop a 'lossless' conversion? e Microsoft even called the document type the Microsoft

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
Jamie Borg wrote: Does this new announcement mean anything for OOo.org developers able actually use the microsoft XML documentation to develop a 'lossless' conversion? Depends on the license. Never doubt Microsoft's willingness to spin the word "open" to make it look like they're playing fai

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread suzume
e Microsoft even called the document type the Microsoft "Office Open" XML format. I expect they parse it as: "Microsoft Office" "Open XML format". It looks like yet another strategy to confuse people into getting the right "open office" thing from "MS Office" and put the incompatibil

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I expect they parse it as: "Microsoft Office" "Open XML format". It looks like yet another strategy to confuse people into getting the right "open office" thing from "MS Office" and put the incompatibility blame on the others :) That cuts both ways, and since they

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread suzume
This one was sent on dev: an MS XML developer's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/06/01/424085.aspx JC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread z.a.kaleta
Dnia czwartek, 2 czerwca 2005 09:01, Daniel Carrera napisaƂ: > Depends on the license. Never doubt Microsoft's willingness to spin the > word "open" to make it look like they're playing fair while still > locking out competitors. Sadly, the state of Massachusetts gave them > some fuel to make that

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread Robin Laing
Daniel Carrera wrote: Jamie Borg wrote: Does this new announcement mean anything for OOo.org developers able actually use the microsoft XML documentation to develop a 'lossless' conversion? Depends on the license. Never doubt Microsoft's willingness to spin the word "open" to make it look

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
Robin Laing wrote: If you want a good idea of how Microsoft views Open formats, look at their response to the idea of including OASIS filters in Word. The details are on the OASIS web site. http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php Basically they don't want to support OASIS but have people u

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-02 Thread cono
Robin Laing wrote: If you want a good idea of how Microsoft views Open formats, look at their response to the idea of including OASIS filters in Word. The details are on the OASIS web site. http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php Hi Robin, Could you pls be more specific in where to fin

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-03 Thread suzume
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-06-02-a.html a longer article from OASIS. JC Helary - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Laing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-06-02-a.html a longer article from OASIS. JC Helary - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is more up-t

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Laing
cono wrote: Robin Laing wrote: If you want a good idea of how Microsoft views Open formats, look at their response to the idea of including OASIS filters in Word. The details are on the OASIS web site. http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php Hi Robin, Could you pls be more specific