On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:17 +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: > On 6/23/10 4:01 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >... The > > quality of the filters in general, it think are very much an > > topic of marketing, since they are the central part of the OO adoption. > > Not really. There was never 100% fidelity between MS Office versions > nor even between the same version on different machines. > > Anyway, the world has moved on from closed, proprietary office formats.
Not fast enough! We still can't be complacent over the marketing implications of not being confident in good quality imports. The problems with some government documents is a lot more severe than any differences between versions of MS Office. > The old documents will go away through attrition, but the sooner > people stop making them, the sooner the overall problem goes away. But that is very wishful thinking in the short term. I should think by the time that happens we'll all have moved to the cloud and desktop apps will be irrelevant. > Nothing should be done that should even appear to encourage further use > of legacy formats -- if the goal is to further market share > OpenOffice.org and other ODF-based suites. > OpenOffice.org can be installed parallel to any pre-existing legacy > applications as the old apps and old documents are phased out. Perhaps > that fact ought to be made more widely known. \ That is not going to happen in a large government department where the users have absolutely no say in what gets installed on the network. On balance the better the filters, the more confidence there will be to try using OOo. If there were no MS Word filters it would have been impossible for our company to migrate to Open Source. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
