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Belgian Government Chooses OpenDocument
Talkback If MS really supports XML, it could easily choose to support OpenDocument. If that claim is true then MS Office more or less already supports OpenDocument. Furthermore, it does not cost MS anything to use OpenDocument, the standard is freely...
[June 24, 2006, 13:47]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback > Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS including support for OpenDocument? Or better yet, just don't use MS Office for working with the OpenDocument format. To solve this problem, people in the tech community would have to be vigilant about...
[October 8, 2005, 18:57]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS including support for OpenDocument? It would be better if MS didn't come anywhere near OpenDocument. They'll "extend" it has they have every other open format so on paper they'll support it but...
[October 8, 2005, 16:45]
ODF Summit Joins Open Source Activists
Talkback OpenDocument is a format. Any vendor at all is technically and legally capable of implementing OpenDocument. MS Office, OpenOffice, KWord, StarOffice are programs. You may wish to point out the interrelation between the monopolies MS has on...
[November 10, 2005, 15:13]
Open Source Awareness Growing In Scotland
Talkback For an in-depth discussion of the difference between MS XML and OpenDocument, see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php? story=20050130002908154#valoris and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument. btw State/Commenwealth of Massachusetts has...
[September 12, 2005, 18:01]
Apple IWork: A First Look
Talkback If everybody else supports OpenDocument, it will finally break the MS monopoly on office suites and we'll all be better for it. The one feature I was really hoping for that is missing is compatibility with the OpenDocument formats that will be the...
[January 12, 2005, 19:23]
Microsoft Muscles In On OpenDocument Group
Talkback If MS has truly made a 180-degree turn and decided to make positive contributions to OpenDocument, then the OASIS Technical Committee would be the place to do that instead of ISO's INCITS/V1. However, the place where MS has the potential to have...
[March 27, 2006, 9:58]
Microsoft Must Drop Its Office Politics
Leader The open standard chosen, OpenDocument from OASIS, is not supported by Microsoft Office. Moreover, Microsoft says that OpenDocument won't be supported in the upcoming Office 12, which has its own Microsoft Office Open XML standard.
[September 2, 2005, 13:00]
Microsoft Must Drop Its Office Politics
Talkback If they supported OpenDocument much like they support other file formats such as WordPerfect, they would, most likely, easily become the leading OpenDocument producing product. In fact, with that leadership, they could end up becoming the "ruler...
[October 4, 2005, 6:26]
File Formats - MS V OpenOffice
Talkback OpenDocument (ODT), Open Office (SXW), MS Word 6.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003 XML, HTML, RTF, TXT, AportisDoc (Palm), DocBook, Pocket Word (PSW). OpenDocument (ODS), OpenOffice (SXC), MS Excel 5/95/97/2000/XP/2003 XML, Data Interchange Format, dBASE (DBF...
[January 29, 2008, 17:13]
Microsoft Licences Too Expensive, Say Schools
Talkback I agree with the opendocument approach and as such advise all clients to seriously consider adopting a office software that supports this. MS Office does not (and most likely will not) support this as they have developed their own, proprietry format.
[January 16, 2006, 12:58]
Linux Wins Approval From The Taxman
Talkback Governments and other organizations around the world will standardize using OpenDocument - something MS Office doesn't support. This will become more common over time.
[October 28, 2005, 7:01]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback It seems to me that if a big enough organization wanted OpenDocument support for MS Office, they could write it themselves and release it under a closed-source, free-as-in-beer license. Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for writing a...
[October 7, 2005, 4:58]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback > Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS including support for OpenDocument? Actually, as part of the licensing of OpenDocument, it expressly forbids extending the format outside of the normal channels.
[October 9, 2005, 13:05]
No Office On Linux 'at This Time'
Talkback For those who don't want their data hidden within proprietary changed-with-every-release MS data formats, switching to OpenDocument sooner is probably easier than it will be later. I have read that MS intends to encrypt the entire disk under "vista...
[October 5, 2005, 21:48]
Microsoft Wins Latest Round In OpenDocument Battle
Talkback OpenDocument has already received that distinction, and thus has a significant head start. In contrast, OpenOffice 2, StarOffice 8, Abiword, TextMaker, and Writely support OpenDocument now, and Workplace, WordPerfect and many others will probably...
[December 14, 2005, 1:40]
Interoperability And The Binary ODF Conversion Dilemma
Talkback Prior to his work with Novell and the OpenDocument Foundation, Florian was Sun's resident RTF - MS Binary conversion expert tasked with assisting and advising OpenOffice/StarOffice community developers.
[February 29, 2008, 7:24]
OpenOffice Nears Download Milestone
Talkback I would expect that the use of OpenOffice and other OpenDocument compatible office software will grow rapidly over the years to com. I have seen statistics that shows that OOo allready have a greater market share than the latest version of MS...
[October 19, 2005, 19:35]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback What is important is that OpenDocument is forcing MS to discuss 'open' standards. MS Office is used so extensively that .doc is a virtual standard. Every open source office suite has to advertise its ability to read/write in MS Office formats, not...
[October 9, 2005, 17:55]
Microsoft's Standardisation Move Divides Experts
Talkback Meanwhile there's OpenOffice which doesn't want a fortune from you (or any payment from the individual) and uses the soon to be world accepted standard of OpenDocument. Here we have MS wanting to charge you lots for the same product with a...
[November 24, 2005, 16:33]
