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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Posted by: Rodd Clarkson (Sunday 9 October 2005, 1:11 PM)
> Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? It's only you who want to be different that's causing too much trouble. With my Windows XP and the upcoming Vista plus some more hundred bucks, I am now with the majority of happy users under Microsoft's wing.
Actually, this has nothing to do with hating MS. It's all about choice and access. Microsoft are more than willing to come to the party and support this format. No one is stopping them. It's their call.
> Open Office reading Microsoft Office format easy? I don't think so! I've seen some of my misguided collegues wrestle their way to interpreting Power Point slides in that poor software!
Office reading Office formats is laughable too. Try opening that 10 year old power point presentation and you'll understand why we need open, documented formats for our data. Try opening that Word 2 file and you'll really understand. Of course the irony is that OpenOffice might struggle with some Office files, but it also opens some Office files that Office can't. ON top of this, it also saves Office files in a more usable (more able to be read by various versions of Office) way than Office.
> I think MIT SHOULD RECONSIDER the word format as it's de facto.
See this is what happens when you just follow some company around like sheep. This isn't about MIT (Mass Institute of Technology), it's about a decision made by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. You know, the governement in Mass.
Besides, defacto standards aren't all they are cracked up to be (see my comments above).
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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
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Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for... Tavis
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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... Flash
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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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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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