On 09/12/2007, Johnny Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/9, Carl-Heinz Johanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > MS Office user can not read my letter. Wat ist the causalität. Please > > write in German. Thanks > > Carl-Heinz Johanning > > > MS Office can not read your letters, that's probably correct. So write to > Microsoft and tell them that they need to implement support for ODF in their > office suite.
You are 100% correct. This is the solution to the problem, not a temporary workaround like I had suggested (sending a pdf). Here is the MS Office contact information: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX101538731033.aspx What should one write to them? Why should MSO have native ODF support? My reasons are: 1) To share documents with non-MSO users, especially users of non-MS operating systems. 2) To prevent forced updates with version X not reading files from version Y. However, neither of these reasons are in MS's best interest. So, why should they implement ODF support? What benefit will it be to them? > Or tell the receiver of your letters to install an ODF plugin for MS Office. Or to install OOo. I had two lab partners install OOo this past month. They both thanked me. > ODF is an international standard (ISO/IEC 26300 2006) that is supported by > almost everyone except Microsoft, so this is really Microsoft's fault, not > OpenOffice.org's. The problem with MSO users is that they do not realize that there exists a group that goes by the title "almost everyone except Microsoft". They think that everyone uses MSO. For them, it's simply "office", much like Windows is "computer" and IE is "the internet". Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
