2008/5/10 Ganesha Bhaskara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > M Henri Day wrote: > > > Here a link (http://tinyurl.com/3ja7xy) to a recent InfoWorld article > > which > > claims that OOo 3.0b has significant problems dealing with MS Office > > 2007 > > xml files. > > > FYI ....... MS office 2007 itself is not compliant with OOXML standard. > Infact, OOXML itself is in the process of being revised > and hence it is not surprising to find bugs in software that implements > a moving target. It is only after OOXML standard stabilizes, will the > various > implementations start converging.
I fear, Ganesh, that you miss the point of the exercise. Most users that have followed the relevant discussion on this list will, of course, be aware of the fact that, just as you point out, MS Office 2007 is not itself compliant with the so-called Office Open XML «standard». Nor, given the manner in which Microsoft seems to operate, is there anything here at which to be surprised.... > > > The safest bet would be to completely aviod using docx for now and using > the > traditional 2003 format for MS office documents. MS office 2007 will be > able to > save files in 2003 office formats. The problem is that OOo users are receiving, e g, documents saved in docx format from their correspondents, and it has here been indicated that the compatibility problems this has engendered will be resolved with the release of OO 3.0 this fall. The *InfoWorld* article to which I forwarded a link casts some doubt on whether, indeed, this will prove to be the case : «There may still be time to get involved and help iron out the bugs<http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html>with Office 2007 support -- but I [i e, Neil McAllister] doubt it». The article does recommend MS Office 2007 users to save documents, spreadsheets, etc, in MS Office 2003 formats for the time being - «For now, my recommendation remains the same: If you're an Office 2007 user, like me, you'll probably want to keep saving your documents in Office 2003 format -- at least until OpenDocument becomes more mainstream», but given the fact that a majority of these have likely not even heard of OOo, if they do follow this recommendation - which I doubt, given the fact that Word in MS Office 2007 is configured to save to docx format by default - it will be to accommodate other MS Office users who are still running earlier versions of the programme. My hope in forwarding the link to our list was to call forth a response from other users who are in the process of testing OO0 3.0b and, not least, the developers.... > > Have other users who've tested OOo 3.0b also found this to be the > > case ? > > > Yes ...... there are issues. An independent confirmation of Mr McAllister's experience.... > > As the beta is not (yet ?) available in a 64-bit version, I've not > > had the opportunity to test it myself.... > > > > Henri > > Henri
