On 21 May 2008 at 22:32, Jason Cipriani wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:22 PM, rob clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is Microsoft's new "support"of ODF 1.1 an attempt to cause problems for > > OpenOffice 3.0 in September as that will support ODF 1.2? > > > > Conspiracy theory it maybe or simply at attempt to slow down the take-up of > > OOo 3.0? > > In my little circle it's the other way around. The longer MSOffice > goes without supporting ODF, the longer I can tell people "here is an > ODF document, you'll have to go grab OpenOffice to edit it, it's > really easy to set up"... I think they're just realizing "hey -- > OpenOffice -and- GoogleDocs both support this, *maybe* it's time to > get up to speed here". I can't imagine any harm that could come to
Unless their version starts acquiring incompatible extensions. Isn't this what happened with java? (Or maybe I remember wrongly.) > anything except MSOffice if they didn't start supporting ODF like > everybody else so... that doesn't really seem like the makings of any > conspiracy theory to me! -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
