M Henri Day wrote:
> [Henri's own flamewar redacted]

What your original troll that started the thread has to do with OOo
support is not clear.  ODF discussions belong on [email protected],
for the most part.

It could mean that there will be more confusion in the support
discussions about Microsoft Office 2007.

Barbara Duprey wrote:
> There's another problem, too -- MS Office now has its own 
> non-interoperable way of "supporting" ODF, and will claim that it is
> the only one with a fully ISO-compliant ODF implementation. That's
> the way they plan to hold all the markets that demand ODF.

Microsoft Office 2007 does not support ODF, and according to these full
URLs [1], actually destroys ODF documents if opened in Microsoft Office
2007 without the help of Sun's ODF plugin:

http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/microsofts_odf_support_falls_short/
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/fact-sheet-Microsoft-ODF-support.pdf

Some example of some details where Microsoft Office fails:
 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-on-excel-2007-sp2s-odf.html

During the transition period, when any remaining Microsoft Office
installations are abandoned, a work-around to provide ODF support is
provided by the Sun ODF Plugin.  However, in those cases, it is more
appropriate to install OOo along side the old suite.

The  Sun ODF plugin can be found here still:
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/

/Lars

[1]     Link shorteners, also known as the herpes of the web, are bad
        for every one of us as end-users:
        http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html



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