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Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet)Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet)Posted Dec 8, 2006 0:42 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet) by azhrei_fje Parent article: Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet)
Why on earth would Novell devote valuable engineer time to OpenXML? Hopefully they can put out another FAQ to explain just what it is they're thinking.
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Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet) Posted Dec 8, 2006 1:45 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] I'm not familiar with the details of this whole OpenXML thing,and I know there's significant suspicion about Novell's aims or judgement after their buddying up to MS, but... can someone explain how this is different from spending time supporting the existing .doc format? Getting .doc support into free word processors took a long time, but it was a huge benefit, because many people could not switch away from MS without an something interoperable to switch to. If MS is switching to OpenXML, we _have_ to follow at least far enough to have import/export filters, no?
Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet) Posted Dec 8, 2006 8:44 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (guest, #31152) [Link] Because we want to kill OpenXML before it goes mainstream? Supporting .doc was essential for people to even consider OOo, but now we want to push ODF instead of having to live with yet another .doc (OpenXML) format.
Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet) Posted Dec 10, 2006 7:55 UTC (Sun) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link] Writing code to support OpenXML will do very little to help or hinder attempts so kill OpemXML. Frankly, I'd rather have the option of being able to view OpenXML documents soon after Word starts using them, because I am in a position where I will need to be able to open them.
Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet) Posted Dec 8, 2006 12:54 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link] My guess is that it is because OpenXML is going to be used quite abit whether we like it or not.
Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead (ZDNet) Posted Dec 8, 2006 14:19 UTC (Fri) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link] About 150 man years of engineer time, according to Microsoft's Macbusiness unit: http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2006/12/open_xml_one-w....
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