Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Office 2013 to (finally) read and write Open XML

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi :)
I think the problem is that MS Office 2010's and 2007's versions of docX, xlsX, (etc ) are not the same as each other and not the same as the ISO standard they managed to push through.  For most programs the differences would be considered bugs and work would be done to make the program more compatible with the standard.  For MS Office those differences seem to be considered enhancements and wont ever get fixed.  

So, which one should LO aim for?  Should it aim for compatibility with MSO 2010's or 2007's implementation of the docX (etc)?  

An added complication appears to be that (just like with the Rtf format) those differences are not published so differences would have to be found and reverse engineered before the devs can start working on increasing compatibility.  

With the Rtf format Micorsoft apparently got taken to court, again, and lost again.  So now they are no longer developing the Rtf format and the new docX (etc) ISO standard makes much the same promises that were made with Rtf.  

That is why Andreas' link to the annual Peanuts joke was so apt.  People are once again under the impression that MS will deliver what it promises, compatibility.  

If it can't even be compatible with it's own native OOXML format and seems to use those incompatibilities to force people to keep buying newer and newer versions of their programs then just how much can we rely on their implementation of the OpenDocument Format's (pre-existing) ISO format as used by almost everyone that is not MS?  

Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Fri, 17/8/12, Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de> wrote:

From: Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Office 2013 to (finally) read and write Open XML
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 17 August, 2012, 20:53

Am 17.08.2012 21:30, Milos Sramek wrote:
> Dňa 17.08.2012 18:52, Andreas Säger wrote / napísal(a):
>> Am 17.08.2012 16:31, T. R. Valentine wrote:
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/15/office_2013_strict_open_xml/
>>> 
>>> This should improve compatibility between LO and M$O.
> Does anybody know how far is LO with implementation of Strict Open XML?
> Fully done? Or just a part of it?
> Milos
>>> 
>> 

The file format called "Office Open XML" will never be implemented by any software other than Microsoft Office. It is far too much for a comparatively small package like LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
When anybody has written a clone of MS Office with the exact same feature set (may be next decade?), MS will come up with the next bloated bullshit.


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