Hi :) So that seems to be +3 for ".doc" (98/2000/Xp) for interoperability when MS Office is in the mix. If it was just Macs and all other Office Suites except MSO then odf would be ideal. With MSO the slightly dodgy and vulnerable ".doc" (and ".xls" (for spreadsheets)) seems to be recognised as the one that everyone can read/write successfully.
Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Roger T. Imai <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 0:03:09 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: For MS interoperability- Legacy formats or OOXML? Problems with OOXML conversions could be seen as intended by design by Microsoft, which is attempting to supplant the simpler OpenDocument Format standard with its own complex inscrutable standards. Years ago, I found a copy of a memo that appeared to be written by Bill Gates in response to an accidental posting of the proprietary MSOffice Document standards on a public board -- the standard was quickly grabbed by programmers, and shortly after all the MS Office competitors released versions that were completely Microsoft Office XP-compliant. But, you can probably find better information that I can provide here by Googling ODF vs OOXML . I believe that the legacy Office formats are handled quite well by open source Office applications because they had the original coding for it, and that Microsoft is attempting to re-establish format-dominance with its version of OOXML which is so complicated that it is difficult to convert. > > The OOXML format doesn't seem to be properly implemented by MS Office even > tho >i > thought they drew up the specifications for it (i could easily be wrong about > that and don't care if i am). Ahh well. Hopefully it will all settle down a > bit soon. > Regards from > Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
