Roger, Do you still have a copy of that memo?
Wayne On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Roger T. Imai <[email protected]>wrote: > 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
