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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Posted by: Paul Vincent (Friday 7 October 2005, 9:16 AM)
The logic is inescapable: OpenOffice can happily read MS Office documents, and save documents in MS Office format, but MS Office cannot read OpenOffice documents. So anyone in an environment containing documents in both formats needs only OpenOffice, but cannot get by with only MS Office. Sooner or later this will force Microsoft to provide Open Document support, purely for reasons of self-interest (and self-preservation).
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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
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Mr. Taylor, do you actually know how many customer... Anonymous -
OpenOffice does have an export as PDF functio... Anugraha -
It just floors me how many folks line up in s... Steve Thompson
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What's the population of Massachusetts? Isn't it m... Tomas Marek
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There is a very good text about it here:
http://ww... Anonymous
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Can you imagine any other industry where if s... Richard
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Microsoft is gambling that they can brea... Dan Clayton -
Yet another prediction of Microsoft's defeat. Wasn... Matt S
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Most people seem to either hate them or... Anonymous
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Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for... Tavis
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The logic is inescapable: OpenOffice can happily r... Paul Vincent -
Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? It'... Microsoft Office Fan
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> Why do you hate Microsoft Office so mu... Rodd Clarkson
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Personally, I've been using OOo for... Mitch 74
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What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
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What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
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Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS includ... Anonymous
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> Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS... Flash
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> Doesn't anyone else see the problem wi... Rodd Clarkson
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ODF is _not_ "quite new", it is based on StarOffic... Anonymous
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Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of MS apologis... Olavi Petri
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I disagree. MS Office is used so extensively that... Anonymous
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"MS Office is used so extensively that .doc i... Sean Jodrey
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Do people really believe in 5 years time... Jon
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>There is no more chance of people... Anonymous
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Point is people dont really ca... Jon
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Re: "Do people really believe... Richard
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Now I would not go as far as saying... Clifford
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Standards are not meant to be static. T... Anonymous
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makes sense
i understand your point... Scott W
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That's ho... JJ
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Ejaculate on Microsoft! Testy Testerton
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Standards are meant to be fully backward compatibl... Arthur B.
