On 2 January 2011 17:19, Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/2/2011 2:29 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: >> >> On 1/2/11 8:15 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: >> [snip] > > It would be good to know which works better for interoperability when sent > to an MS-only shop -- ODF or the current OOXML. In other words, is the LibO > version of OOXML a better product than the MS version of ODF? Very > interesting, if so. I'd like to know which to recommend. And of course the > Sun(free)/Oracle(not free) plugin for MS Office is a player in this > question, too. I know it's better than the MS ODF, but how does it compare > to the LibO OOXML?
OOXML wins hands down in this use case. Not because the LibO/OOo OOXML is better than the Microsoft ODF or Sun/Oracle plugin for MS Office but because the vast majority of MS-only shops don't bother installing support for ODF in the first place. I went through this with a customer recently: it ended up being a lot easier for me to output OOXML or good old DOC than for them to install the right plugins to read ODF. This is compounded by the fact that a lot of MS-only shops are large companies that still use Windows XP with an old version of Office. Bruno -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
