Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

On 07/05/2013, Milos Sramek <sramek.milos@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank you all for your answers. In fact I take part in a larger scale
> testing of interoperability of formats, since open source software is
> currently considered by Slovak administration as and alternative to the
> standard MS stuff. If everything goes really well, there will be a
> transition period when open source (say, LO) and proprietary
> applications will be used in parallel and documents in various formats
> will be interchanged. Therefore, we want to understand the situation and
> prepare a guide (use this feature, avoid that feature), which would help
> in creating documents which can safely be opened by the other tool.
>
> I am aware of the fact that "open" standards like OOXML, which are
> more-or-less in hands of only one company (even if it is an ISO
> standard) will always be a problem. Simultaneously, MS support of ODF
> will probably never be perfect. But a state administration does not need
> complex features and formatting - therefore we want to prepare the guide
> which would tell them, what is safe to use.

You may want to review the following guide published by m$:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/differences-between-the-opendocument-text-odt-format-and-the-word-docx-format-HA010355788.aspx


> If this is a bug in LO I will file a bug in its Bugzilla. If it is a bug
> in MS2013, we will ask MS to correct that (there is a guy from Microsoft
> in our team who promised to do that). If they do not correct it, it will
> be a nice argument against using MSO at all.

Could you also ask your m$ guy to ask that m$ publish in public domain
all their bugs? :)

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