RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

The docx, xslx, pptx formats and others are OOXML. There are deviations as well as features (such 
as encryption) that are not part of OOXML.  But most of the non-support claims about Microsoft 
honoring OOXML are based on the fact that early implementations supported the transitional flavor 
of OOXML.  The move to the strict flavor, a separation created in the ISO process, has been made 
over time along with continuing support of transitional OOXML.    

My experience is that deviations with respect to the OOXML standard are documented better in 
Microsoft on-line implementation notes than is done by any implementations of ODF-based software.  

Microsoft Office also supports ODF 1.1 since Office 2007 SP2 and ODF 1.2 is supported in the new 
Office 2013.  There are public, on-line implementation notes and documentation of deviations for 
those too.  I've also heard that European versions of Microsoft Office can be set to have ODF as 
the default format.  I have no way to confirm that and I am not certain that is new with Office 
2013 or is also the case for Office 2010.

The main binary formats, and RTF (a text-carried format) are now all documented and that has been 
true for a few years. All of the specifications are freely downloadable. 

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Don C. Myers [mailto:donmyers@myersfarm.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 08:57
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

Hi Everyone,

When the Microsoft formats were approved as an ISO standard, wasn't that 
supposed to make the information on their formats available to everyone 
else? From what I've read through the years, they have failed to 
implement their own ISO standards. Shouldn't there be some way to 
enforce the ISO standards approval on Microsoft so they can become 
inter-operable with LibreOffice?

Don


On 11/19/2012 08:03 AM, VA wrote:
> Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> "There is one more hing that could turn this around - if the EU (or some
> other major governmental entity) were to engage in and win an antitrust
> lawsuit against Microsoft and force them to *fully* document their file
> formats, as happened with their Windows Server SMB protocols (which I
> understand has benefited the Samba project immensely)."
>
>
> It would help immensely if the Open Source folks would combine their 
> efforts on one excellent MS alternative. The twin development of AOO 
> and LibO (with each having its own advantages over the other), only 
> helps MS.
>
> Virgil

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