The docx, xslx, pptx formats and others are OOXML. There are deviations as well as features (such as encryption) that are not part of OOXML. But most of the non-support claims about Microsoft honoring OOXML are based on the fact that early implementations supported the transitional flavor of OOXML. The move to the strict flavor, a separation created in the ISO process, has been made over time along with continuing support of transitional OOXML.
My experience is that deviations with respect to the OOXML standard are documented better in Microsoft on-line implementation notes than is done by any implementations of ODF-based software. Microsoft Office also supports ODF 1.1 since Office 2007 SP2 and ODF 1.2 is supported in the new Office 2013. There are public, on-line implementation notes and documentation of deviations for those too. I've also heard that European versions of Microsoft Office can be set to have ODF as the default format. I have no way to confirm that and I am not certain that is new with Office 2013 or is also the case for Office 2010. The main binary formats, and RTF (a text-carried format) are now all documented and that has been true for a few years. All of the specifications are freely downloadable. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Don C. Myers [mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 08:57 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ? Hi Everyone, When the Microsoft formats were approved as an ISO standard, wasn't that supposed to make the information on their formats available to everyone else? From what I've read through the years, they have failed to implement their own ISO standards. Shouldn't there be some way to enforce the ISO standards approval on Microsoft so they can become inter-operable with LibreOffice? Don On 11/19/2012 08:03 AM, VA wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: > > "There is one more hing that could turn this around - if the EU (or some > other major governmental entity) were to engage in and win an antitrust > lawsuit against Microsoft and force them to *fully* document their file > formats, as happened with their Windows Server SMB protocols (which I > understand has benefited the Samba project immensely)." > > > It would help immensely if the Open Source folks would combine their > efforts on one excellent MS alternative. The twin development of AOO > and LibO (with each having its own advantages over the other), only > helps MS. > > Virgil > -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
