On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Mani A <[email protected]> wrote:
> Summary: Never even try to use M$ Office
>
> Excerpts from  
> http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html
>
> "The technical details are all on Rob’s blog, but in summary, when
> opening an ODF spreadsheet (.ods file) using Office 2007, it simply
> removes all existing formulas without telling anything to the user,
> leaving only the values in cells (results of formulas evaluation,
> previously stored in the document). If a user wants to test the ODF
> support in Office, and without giving due attention, save an existing
> spreadsheet, will overwrite the document removing all the formulas (as
> if you were writing a table). I saw absurdities in life, but nothing
> compared to this.

<snip>

Deja Vu. Many years ago, they tried to do the same to Java. Old habits
die hard.

Venky

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