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Story: Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
Posted by: Mitch 74 (Tuesday 6 September 2005, 4:21 PM)
What I find funny, is that OOo 2.0 beta 2 supports MS XML (on top of 'original' MSO 97/XP formats) - it might be patchy, long to load/save, but it does seem to work with MSO 2003 XML formats; since OOo exploits all of OASIS XML document formats (they are, after all, based on the former OOo formats), it looks like interoperability problems between MS XML and ODF XML isn't something that can be overcome. So, how comes a community is able to do so, while a multibillion dollars company can't? It means, in short, that you can't measure a software company's worth through its accumulated cash.
However, fact is OOo 2.0 will support all commonly encountered formats in whole or in part, while MSO 12 won't - at all.
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Story: Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
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Ofcourse Microsoft will have to do an all out assa... Arthur B. -
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The MS license is not online. I've looked and loo... Anonymous
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Yates is incorrect. OpenDocument is supported by... Anonymous
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In fact, many office packages support the for... a.c.
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Who do Microsoft think they are? If Pepsi went aro... Richard
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Microsoft will not support OpenDocument in its... Yagotta B. Kidding
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(a) Microsoft's MSXML format won't open in Of... Anonymous
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Microsoft made the decision themselves. They decid... David Finch
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What a bunch of bull! Not supporting the OpenDocu... David Ross
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The comments from Microsoft don't hold water.
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