Le 28/10/2013 20:38, Jörg Schmidt a écrit :
Hello,
From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:[email protected]]
That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a
better OOXML
support for AOO and you will probably notice some more
activity in the
future going in this direction.
Excellent. A better Microsoft compatibility is what our users
set as #1
priority in the user survey and improving OOXML import (and
export!) is
surely part of that.
This is a pragmatic way, also a necessary way, but I fear it will be in the long
run, even the death of the current ODF.
+1.
No user of MS Office will move more of OOXML to ODF, if the compatibility of
OOXML
in AOO will be similar as well of *.doc.
+1. Why should they bother if it works? They just want to have a free
alternative to MS Office.
It is not wrong to improve compatibility with OOXML, but that will unfortunately
be the side effect. I think that you should see clearly.
We must also see that the need to improve the compatibility with OOXML,
unfortunately, also an expression of the fact that market dominance continues to
have MS Office .
I look at what happens at the ISO, where they talked some time ago by the
merging
of the two standards ( ODF and OOXML), and take statements from experts
seriously,
it seems to me the path mapped out, there will be a new standard in the future,
even if no one likes to hear.
We should all prepare ourselves to it and work on it that it prevents the MS
this
standard does not dominate. That's what we should see as a long term goal.
I am thinking there must be cooperation between _all_ the OSS projects will use
the ODF.
I still believe that MS will *never* agree with a real standard. That would be
the end of their lock-in policy and the loss of their market shares.
BTW, there are 2 flavors of OOXML. Which one should be considered? The one ISO
certified and hardly supported by MS Office (IIRC) or the flavor implemented by
MS? But the latter is the one that uses all the MSO features so there will
never be a complete interoperability. Users will then always complain that it's
not compatible...
Hagar
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