Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 00:13, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> Yes, that's the issue. I don't know about the binary formats, but I've
> read that Microsoft does not actually *follow* OOXML. (This, if true,
> means, ironically, that there is no program with complete, 100%, OOXML
> support.) Maybe it was just a hoax, but I doubt it. After all, it's
> Microsoft.
>
> With Microsoft stardards, either someone steps forward and spends their
> time working out how to convert between MS formats and ODF, which will
> take a *lot* of time (and will not address the implementation
> deviations), or people flag issues and devs will address compatibility
> issue by issue.
>
> So, people with compatiblity issues, please report these issues.

One team at MS works on MS Office, another on the OOXML standard. This
is required to be considered for a standard. Much how LO is written by
a group of programmers, and the ODF standard by engineers. LO does not
implement the ODF standard 100% either.


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