From koffice-devel  Thu May 22 12:12:37 2008
From: Sebastian Sauer <mail () dipe ! org>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:12:37 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Microsoft Office 2007 to support odf
Message-Id: <200805221412.37916.mail () dipe ! org>
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On Thursday 22 May 2008, Valerie wrote:
> Did you guys read the news?
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/21/1818237.shtml
>
> I think this is awesome! The short-term impact may be limited,
> because I don't know about you, but not many people I know use
> MS Office 2007. However, it means from now on, each version of
> Microsoft Office will likely have odf support, no matter how
> poor, which would make it compatible with KOffice even if
> KOffice does not implement OOXML.
>
> It will allow open source office suites to focus more on odf,
> and reduce concerns that the output would not be able to
> work with MS Office (still the most commonly used office program,
> after all). Overall, a lot more good news than bad.

I would say; take care Oasis to don't accept something as ODF that is not. 
Cause somehow I fear they will just to the same they tried ~10 years back 
with Java, with html/the web or just recently with the ISO.
Sorry, I fail here to don't believe that this could be also a try to attac ODF 
cause document-interoperability and lock-in don't work well together.
But we will see if they (re-)join Oasis to work together to address 
interoperability or just don't and come up with an own interpretation of what 
ODF is :-/

p.s. iirc Sun has a working import/export plugin for MSOffice since some time 
already.
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