Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza <garzaj@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion.
>
> You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format???
>
> I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically
> wrong decision.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jaime

Although MS stopped free support for MS Office 2003 some time ago, its
use is still widespread. It would be a mistake for LibO to support the
ill-defined, shifting OOXML and deprecate MS 2003 support.

Carl


> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 16:36, Peter Jentsch <pjotr@guineapics.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently investigating a bug with the Excel 2003 import filter
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35543). Looking closer at
> > the filter and how much work needed to be done to improve it, and
> > considering the fact that Office 2003 ML has been superseeded by OOXML,
> > fixing that bug feels like flogging a dead horse.
> >
> > I'd rather suggest to drop Office 2003 support in LibO altogether and
> > instead focus on improving OOXML and HTML import/export.
> >
> > For anybody with a large library of Office 2003 XML documents not wanting
> > to upgrade to MS Office 2007/2010, Microsoft offers a compatibility pack
> > that allows to open and save OOXML from MS Office 2003.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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