http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32228
MS Office 2007 will not support DIS-29500 until 2009, if then.
Make VERY SURE everyone knows that Microsoft Office officially doesn't support DIS-29500!
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32228
MS Office 2007 will not support DIS-29500 until 2009, if then.
Make VERY SURE everyone knows that Microsoft Office officially doesn't support DIS-29500!
... just be careful to note that only the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3 release allows users to save in the IS 26300 format? ;)
Seriously, keep the pressure up on Microsoft, but recognise the big win: that office file formats, whichever they are, are now talked about in terms of standards, not proprietary formats.
Cheers,
Alex.
2008/5/21 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32228 MS Office 2007 will not support DIS-29500 until 2009, if then. Make VERY SURE everyone knows that Microsoft Office officially doesn't support DIS-29500!
And 2007 will "support" ODF 1.1:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930...
Though I wonder what Microsoft values of "support" will entail.
(I'm glad there's two independent implementations of ODF - OOo and KOffice - and not just one.)
- d.
"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com writes:
(I'm glad there's two independent implementations of ODF - OOo and KOffice - and not just one.)
Multiple, independent implementations, freely and currently available. Pretty fundamental stuff for a specification that hopes to be promoted as standard.
I just wish ISO agreed.
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 01:16 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
And 2007 will "support" ODF 1.1:
The BBC has the story as well, with statements from Georg Greve: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7414547.stm
On Thu, 22 May 2008 14:07:15 +0200 Stian Rødven Eide julipan@fsfe.org wrote:
sre> The BBC has the story as well, with statements from Georg Greve: sre> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7414547.stm
Unfortunately the story skips the "GNU/" and fails to mention the Free Software applications supporting ODF -- OpenOffice, Koffice, Abiword and so on -- just mentions the propietary applications.
But otherwise the article has the right tone, I think.
Regards, Georg
2008/5/22 Stian Rødven Eide julipan@fsfe.org:
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 01:16 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
And 2007 will "support" ODF 1.1:
The BBC has the story as well, with statements from Georg Greve: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7414547.stm
That's pretty good, but I'm surprised they didn't manage a good MS quote in time ... the story looks slanted without it.
- d.