2007/12/10, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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.
This works some times, but I hear often things like "I don't want to install anything more, my hard drive is already full of shit" or similar. In that case an ODF plugin might feel a little less scary than a whole office suite. > 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". Maybe we don't "fight" enough in this area? J.R. 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? >
