Hello,
As you know, Microsoft recently introduced support for OpenDocument in
MS Office 2007 Service Pack 2 - together with the ability to make ODF
the DEFAULT saving format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
This is of practical importance for all users, no matter they use MS
Office or not.
The bad news is that the support for OpenDocument is broken: please see
Rob Weir analysis on that:
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-on-excel-2007-sp2s-odf.html
That means we will soon have a corpus of BROKEN OpenDocument documents
on the market, especially spreadsheets. It also means the risk of
corrupting VALID ODF documents (produced by OpenOffice.org) if they are
opened, modified, then saved in MS Office 2007.
I'll be very interested in knowing the opinion of the users on this list
on a few practical matters:
- how should we handle broken ODF documents (especially inside a company) ?
- how should we effectively put pressure on Microsoft regarding that,
comercially and legally ?
- does it worth implementing a workaround in OpenOffice.org, in order to
correctly handle these broken ODF documents ?
- how to define an overall strategy for avoiding the creation of broken
ODF Documents ?
- how should we effectively advertise this Microsoft bug, in order to
raise public awareness of it ?
Best regards,
Răzvan
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