RE: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

Yes, don't confuse ODF compatibility with OpenOffice.org (or LibreOffice) compatibility.  I was in 
the room on one occasion when Microsoft was asking for advice on their approach to ODF 1.1 
Spreadsheet documents.  

Unfortunately, none of us blinked about how this would work for users who are unaware that ODF 1.1 
has no standard for calculation formulas but think that OpenOffice.org Calc is the standard.

I don't believe that ODF support was "broken."  The ODF support in Office 2007 is the first time 
that integrated ODF support appeared in Microsoft Office.  I know there are bugs, some of them 
rather surprising/disappointing.  

 - Dennis

(ODF 1.2 is a different story but I don't know the current status of OpenFormula in LibreOffice and 
I have not seen anything on Microsoft plans in this area.  I have seen a statement that Microsoft 
wants to present its ODF plans for the next release of Office at an April 2012 Plugfest in 
Brussels.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Burgess-Parker [mailto:gbplinux@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 07:22
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

On 21/07/2011 14:23, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> I am of the opinion that good inter-operability with MSO products 
> makes it easier to attract new users and that poor inter-operability 
> with MSO products makes it more difficult.
Interestingly, I've just received an MSO .doc document. I opened it in 
MSO Word 2007 and did a "save as" odt format. I then opened that odt 
document in LO 3.3. The formatting was all over the shop and it was 
almost impossible to get it back to the original look.
I then opened the .doc file directly in LO and it was almost identical 
to the original - needed almost NO tweaking at all.
Is there a moral here? Have MS DELIBERATELY broken the odf support in 
Office 2007 so as to make it difficult to switch? (And don't forget the 
debacle with opening ODS documents in Excel - the formulae are ALL 
stripped out......)

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