On 10/8/05, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On ה', 2005-10-06 at 21:09 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Which just gave me an idea for the OO people - taking a page > > out of Firefox' book > > Which page? If you're referring to IE View, you're talking about the
No, I was reffering to the large amount of effort they put into converting existing IE settings into Firefox so people can get up and running with most of their important data on the new platform in no time. > > provide an MS Office plugin which can read > > OO (or OpenDocument?) files so people can read it easely using > > their existing MS office. > > Have it ever occured to you that not all word processors are the same? > OO Writer is not intended to be item-by-item copy of MS Word, and > therefore both programs have some exclusive features. How will this "OO > plugin for MS Word" convert features which are unique to OO Writer? Just like OO has an "import" feature of MS Office format, and same as MS Office itself supports all sorts of different formats - provide an "import"/"export" feature of OO format to MS Office software. > Rick Schaut of the Microsoft Mac Word team has put it pretty well in > this blog entry: > http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2005/09/29/475510.aspx Haven't got time to read *all* through this but skimming through it I don't accept his excuses for MS' XML format being "open enough" - MS retains (or planned to retain?) patents on this format and the sole right to change it at its own will. If MS really wanted to make its new format open it could have given up its rediculous patents claim and put the format under a fairer license. --Amos
