Jason Faulkner wrote:
Here is another article that gives an MS spin. *We need to be in this
discussion, as the defenders of ODF!*
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170700325
"Microsoft will not support OpenDocument in its next version of Office
12<http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166401171&flatPage=true>because
it is an inferior file format and is not compatible with older
versions of Office, one Microsoft executive said this week after the report
was released."
Which of course is a bunch of BS. Even if the compatability issue was
real (it isn't) it would still miss the point entirely. Is Microsoft
going to stop supporting Plain Text because it can't fully represent MS
Office data? Or RTF? Or Word Perfect? How come Microsoft doesn't drop
support for every other format on the basis that it is not fully
compatible with MS Office?
It's not like Microsoft is being required to make OpenDocument their one
and only format. They are merely being asked to *support* it. That is,
to add an entry under their "Save As" dialog for ODF.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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