On 06/03/2012 05:29 AM, Miros?aw Zalewski wrote: > On 03/06/2012 at 01:58, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The real problem is that ODF 1.2 is not supported by MS and I am not >> sure if MSO XP supports any ODF formats. > But Andreas is not talking about DOC vs ODF. He is talking about DOC vs DOCX. > I agree with him - DOC was around earlier, it has pretty good (but not > perfect) support in LibreOffice. MS Office 2007 and 2010 are capable of > reading > and writing old binary DOC format. > > When interoperability with MS Office users is concerned, then DOC is the best > option you can choose. My choice of MS formats is done for*political* reasons not technical. Some people I interact with need to feel comfortable that I can read a MSOX format file and the best way to convey this is to send them MSOX format files. Thus they do not need to worry if I can open a file they send me and most do not know that the file was created on a Linux box using LO unless I tell them. I assume many of the other users are not technically skilled enough to use Save As and will only use the default format of their version of MSO. If I have no idea what a person uses other than a version Windows I use the older formats as a precaution. My guerrilla campaign is not use Windows and thus MSO at all and to use Linux/LO and show others over time that they do not need to depend on MS for many if not all of their computing needs.
Note I do not use any MSO/MSOX formats for document creation or editing, I always use ODF formats and do a final Save As to convert the format. A side note many Windows users are surprised when I tell them I can not use IE on Linux, they assume everyone can use IE. Needless to say, these users are probably completely unaware there are other office suites available (FOSS or commercial). -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
