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Poor Microsoft ODF support, says ODF Alliance
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TimTDP
Expert Member
you didn't expect Microsoft to make it easy did you?
bekdik
Honorary Master
Which products provide excellent ODF support?
Microsoft's lack of ODF support does not surprise me since there are backwards compatibility rendering issues between different versions of MSO Word - if Microsoft cannot even get rendering to work consistently in its own proprietary document data formats, then I don't think there is much hope that it will get ODF to work properly either.
Netguy
Senior Member
Open Office - download it free from www.openofficed.org and do not look back (on paying for something U could enjoy for free).
No I think they can if they wanted to, but its more profitable to just keep you using their latest format since by now the competition has figured out how to support the older formats.
fixed it for you: http://www.openoffice.org/
Rinkhals
Senior Member
Yes, I believe that Microsoft have a vested interest in trying to make sure that people working for the Larger Multinational Companies continue to shout "For God's sake stop using sub-standard software if you want to do business with us; get with the best, get Microsoft" down the telephone.
The more unresolved interoperability hurdles there are to jump regarding the exchange of documents across different platforms, the more frustrations increase, the more pressure is applied on those of use who would prefer not to use Microsoft's products.
Sad, but true.
The more unresolved interoperability hurdles there are to jump regarding the exchange of documents across different platforms, the more frustrations increase, the more pressure is applied on those of use who would prefer not to use Microsoft's products.
Sad, but true.
<moLe>
Expert Member
and this from an office suite going for almost 5grand for the "standard" edition on retail? sorry but its inexecusable. Open Office is free and I dare say better? Definetly more compliant with ISO requirements which happen to state ODF as an international standard. Star office is what I whould recommend for the corporate user. burn burn burn xml,doc etc
MielieSpoor
Expert Member
Poor support?? and you say Open Office's implimentation is better??
I would suggest to read through a couple of blog posts on here:
Clearing up a few matters with respect to ODF and SP2
http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowl...-few-matters-with-respect-to-odf-and-sp2.aspx
Rethinking ODF leadership
http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/05/06/rethinking-odf-leadership.aspx
ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/05/odf-spreadsheet-interoperability.aspx
1 + 2 = 1?
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/09/1-2-1.aspx
Read through all of those posts and then you rethink what is really going on.
I would suggest to read through a couple of blog posts on here:
Clearing up a few matters with respect to ODF and SP2
http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowl...-few-matters-with-respect-to-odf-and-sp2.aspx
Rethinking ODF leadership
http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/05/06/rethinking-odf-leadership.aspx
ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/05/odf-spreadsheet-interoperability.aspx
1 + 2 = 1?
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/09/1-2-1.aspx
Read through all of those posts and then you rethink what is really going on.
There is nothing wrong with using xml to encode data - it is what xml was designed for.
Rinkhals
Senior Member
???
Where does this come from?
As far as I know, nobody has tried to compare the support of Open Office against Microsoaft. Although, as someone who has posted on the Open Office forum I would be very surprised if Microsoft could match, or come close to the response times to some of the queries I have posted there. However, never having had cause to call on Microsoft's support services, I can't possibly comment. How much DO they cost, by the way?
I've had a look at your links but it's very difficult to understand what they're trying to say beyond the vague accusation that the author of the report has some kind of axe to grind (which seems to be a little rich coming from Redmond).