Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: IPad?

On 05/06/2012 01:31 PM, Andreas Säger wrote:
> Am 06.05.2012 14:38, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 May 2012 08:21 my mailbox was graced by a message from 
> > Andreas
> > Säger who wrote:
> > > Why should MSOffice support ODF?
> >
> > Because in more and more places (think European Union) it is becoming 
> > a legal
> > obligation to publish official texts in a non-proprietary format ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ron.
>
> ODF support in MSOffice is propaganda. MS does nothing while watching 
> other vendors struggling with their OOXML monstrosity.
> Even when MSO destroyed an ODF document people tend to blame 
> Libre/OpenOffice: 
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=50889
Well, MSO wanted their formats to be the world wide default "open 
format", but they did not get it.  So they had to adopt ODF for the 
European market, or so I have heard.  If they do it bad enough, they can 
blame the format and not their use of it.  Then they point and say that 
you should not use ODF but MSO's formats if you want to have business 
class documents.

Well, since I use Ubuntu for my default system, I do not have the MSO 
option.  If I was required to use it, I do have a MSO 2003 version I 
could add to my XP or Vista boots for my Ubuntu/Windows dual booting 
laptops.

I have read something about 12.04LTS/Unity has some icon issues with LO, 
but I did not see that.  But I use MATE instead of Unity as my preferred 
desktop environment on my Ubuntu 12.04 boot on my testing laptop.  I 
like GNOME 2.x, so MATE is the best DE I can currently find for 12.04 
that has the look and feel of what I have on my Ubuntu 10.04LTS default 
desktop [which I am typing from now].

So, if I want to deal with MSO files, I use LO 3.4.6 [may try 3.5.3 on 
the testing laptop] on my desktop.  It seems to read most of the MSO 
documents I get sent from people who are at government agencies and are 
required to use MSO.  I also tend to tell them to send out .doc instead 
of .docx files, since there are still a large percentage of 
people/agencies that never bought any newer version of MSO than 2003.  
Also I tell them that MSO 2010 .docx files can have issues if you open 
them in MSO 2007.  So they should stick with .doc files instead.  MSO 
just keep on messing with their file formats and those new version are 
not completely compatible with their older MSO versions that could read 
those formats [by mime name].


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