On Thursday 02 June 2005 16:46, Nils Olofsson wrote:
> bit off topic but what the hell.
> The way to get Openoffice/MS Office to be 99.999% compatible is for MS
> to allow the opening/saving of OpenOffice docs or just switch MS Office
> to the Oasis document format (problem solved),So IMHO is not an
> OpenOffice problem but a Microsoft problem :P
And with MSOffice 12 (aka MSOffice 2006? ) MS are supposed to be making
their file formats completely XML ( by DEFAULT !!) having multiple files and
zipping them - just like OOo. They are even talking about plugins to allow
older versions of MSOffice to be able to save in such formats :
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/06/01/424085.aspx
Is it vaporware or just a stalling tactic ? ( or am I too cynical ? )
CPH
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