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 far as we know, Microsoft, through > Dough Mahue and the "DocumentInteropInitiative" or whatever they call it > already announced substantial limitations and drawbacks in their > implementation of ODF (see for instance the support of tables in Word). Also, at a glance, I notice ODF 1.1, which means MS will likely to f|k with the spreadsheet formulas. In the last 3 - 4 years no one has ever seriously entertained the thought that MS will really support more than a broken version of ODF, and there is no evidence that support is likely or even possible. So, really the only option I see is to use the MS hype as an endorsement of ODF and OOo. e.g. OOo already supports ODF - today. > Without even crying fool, we should spread a message about quality. At > least now, we know who among the two is the best office suite! Yes, OOo beats MSO in 1) the legacy MSO formats, 2) ODF, 3) PDF and it runs on more platforms. Regards, -Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
