Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote (31-12-10 13:14)
> On 31/12/10 09:30, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > FYI for those that aren't aware. Microsoft office 2010 supports ODF
> > format for opening and saving documents now.
>
> So does 2007 SP2 as well. However in 2007 the opening of ods documents
> has deliberately broken formulae....don't know whether they've "fixed"
> this in 2010, or whether they even want to fix it...

(No idea if someone already answered this somewhere else in this thread, 
so here I go ;-) )

MS sticks (anyway up until now) with the ISO-certified version of ODF.
In the mean time ODF evolves.
Formulae support is close to final, and for months already, there is 
very little chance that there will be changes in the specs.
Even more: the formulae definitions in ODF have to a high level been 
based on MS-implementations of formulae.
So MS could have made a choice to to implement close to final ODF 
versions already.
For OOo and others, it is completely logic and natural to offer support 
for close-to-final ODF specifications already. ODF is the native format 
plus that the open source suites develop so much faster, that it would 
be impractical not to implement them.

Best,
Cor

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