Chad wrote:
"huge backing" as an alternative, not as the main stable of use. The defacto standard ... the most widely used formats of office suite type files
By December 2008, roughly 50 countries will require all documents produced,or submitted to them to be in ODF format. [This is based on legislation that has allready passed.] Four states in the US have legislation mandating open file formats. Thus far,only one file format has ISO recognition--- ODF.
is still hugely MS formats (.doc, .ppt, .xls, etc.). By enabling them by default, it will give the users what they want - the file formats they are used to.
Preaching to Dell about the future of file format standards is like preaching to Dell about the wonders of Mac OS X.
Er no. Dell is basically a vendor for businesses. Corporations are starting to care about file formats, and how future proof they are. By including OOo, Dell is anticipating that future proof requirement, and hence supporting the PHB that doesn't know the difference between a word processor and a spreadsheet.
However, bundling a Dell-branded office suite with industry-defacto-standard-file-format support and a wide range of other format support, (ODF, PDF, Flash, etc.), that would be something they would be interested in.
OOo does support the allegedly de facto file formats. [Well,other than OpenXML,which is not correctly implemented, or supported by anybody ---including Microsoft. (Or are you not area that it is physically impossible to correctly implement the OpenXML specifications they provided as a standard. Or that their standard omits several thousand pages of specifications that are required for "correct" implementation.(IOW, their submitted specification should have been at least 25 000 pages, instead of the 6 000 that it currently consists of.) ) ] xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
