On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:47 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Microsoft has said that they will support OpenDocument in MS Office if > > there is customer demand for it. > > I must say that I really don't know whether this would be a good or a > bad thing.
It's good. Let them compete. However, any intelligent buy-side IT person should not trust their implementation as far as they can throw Steve Ballmer. There will of course be loads of abuses and binary gotchas in their implementation that tie files & functionality to their applications. It will be tantamount to NOT OpenDocument. -Sam > > I can easily imagine Microsoft supporting OpenDocument to the extent > that it nearly works, and then OOo will get the blame when documents > cannot be read properly. > > I'm also sure that OpenDocument leaves room for extensions that OOo > cannot deal with, and then MS can claim they support OpenDocument, > implying that it's OOo's fault. > > I'm just not sure. > > -- Johan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.PlexNex.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
