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

On 3/26/11 5:30 PM, Carl Symons wrote:
> 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
Carl is it safe to say we could easily depreciate anything prior to 
2003, but keep support for 2003 2007 and 2010?


> > 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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