On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > Hmmm a interesting line of conversation... thanks for the great posts. I think I am now starting to understand the real grouse that the US department of justice and european regulators had with M$. Reading books by authors who're basically journalists tends to make one sympathize with Mr.Gates--- but seeing what M$ does makes us realize just how foolish and self destructive a company it is. Regards, NS _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
