RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

[From the great minds think alike department]

Microsoft SkyDrive accepts and presents, via the Office Web Applications, ODF documents.  (These 
applications support a nice variety of features but not all features of the full Microsoft Office 
applications are supported, and there are warnings about those if noticed in an uploaded document 
that is opened for editing via browser.)

In presenting an ODF document, it is opened read only, with an indication that has been done.

If the Edit button is depressed, SkyDrive makes a *copy* of the document and opens that for 
editing.  The original, uploaded ODF document is not touched.  There is a warning that some 
features of the document may not be preserved.  (The editing is being done in Word, and features 
that are not imported into Word will be lost.  Also, use of Word features that don't export will be 
lost too.)

That strikes me as a nicely cautious way to handle formats that are not the "natively-supported" 
format of an application.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves@prodsyse.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 08:37
To: villeroy@t-online.de
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office 
products instead

On 10/6/2012 6:13 AM, Andreas Säger wrote:
> Am 05.10.2012 14:09, John Clegg wrote:
> > I thought LO was emulating MSO 97??
> Read-only is the only sensible way to open other people's files (web
> downloads, mail attachments).


       Why?


       What if I want to edit it?  Are you outlawing collaborative 
work?  I'm confused.


       Spencer

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