Hi Richard, goldring, richard wrote: > Hi, > > This looks good. Unfortunately a lot of companies such as mine use older > versions of Word such as Word 2000 (because of the cost of upgrading). > Would older versions of Word be supported in future? Or even Open Office > writer? > > Regards, > > Richard >
There are no current plans of implementing XOffice for another version of Microsoft Office. Yet, we can adapt the solution relatively easy only to Office 2003, if this is going to be asked by the XWiki.org community. Unfortunately Microsoft discontinued most extensibility technologies for versions of office prior to 2003, because those were created in early '90s and didn't fit the current market any more. The old technologies that are still supported just aren't powerful enough and the support for them will stop in the near future. We choose VSTO as the technology to develop XOffice on top of, at the cost of losing users that have older versions of Office, because it is the only technology that is guaranteed to be in the next versions of Office. Our tech roadmap mainly focuses on Office 2007 and the upcoming Office 14. Regarding Open Office, I see a very high probability of having a similar solution for it, if XOffice will match the impact we expect it to have, or the community will ask for Open Office integration. Thanks, Florin Ciubotaru _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
