Dear Open Source Confrères:
It seems to me that there may be some who prefer Microsoft because it
costs money. The tacit effect being to create an effect of exclusivity
amongst themselves.
Of course this would serve Microsoft's interests inauspiciously well.
Rhetorically I ask: does this mean that users will have to be like the
guy in the Tareyton cigarette television ad of some years back and,
black eye visible, "rather fight than switch?"
Could this mean 2 separate economic camps as the 2 collaborations fight
it out on a global economic scale?
Rhetorically curious about the inausipisous!
Bruce M.
On 08/06/2010 5:03 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Mauricio Rubio Parra wrote:
Hello, I wanted to know why it isn't possible to save files in the
latest
Microsoft Office version (xlsx, pptx, docx) from openoffice? And whether
this feature will or will not be available soon?
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
Mauricio Rubio P.
There probably is no such capability because Microsoft forced through
a new (and incompatible) "standard" for its "open" formats, which will
use a similar mechanism, and I think the same extensions, if and when
they ever get around to supporting it. So the Office 2007 versions
appear to be both proprietary and dead-end. If there is any actual
capability that could be saved in those formats, but not in the older
ones, it would take a great deal of extra programming effort for very
little payback to provide that type of file saving.
Just a guess, of course -- I'm not an OOo developer.
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