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Supporting OOXML in LibreOfficeSupporting OOXML in LibreOfficePosted Jan 11, 2011 11:55 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: Supporting OOXML in LibreOffice by michaeljt Parent article: Supporting OOXML in LibreOffice
Yes, but that only builds up pressure for everybody to upgrade to the latest version. Microsoft is usually pretty good about backwards compatibility, i.e., MS Office n+1 can read documents written by MS Office n, but not necessarily vice-versa, so once enough people have moved to MS Office n+1, if you're still on MS Office n you will be inundated by Office n+1 documents that you can't open, from people who are (a) amazed how you can still work with that obsolete software package, Office n, and/or (b) used to saving stuff as ».doc« all the time and don't realise there are different flavours.
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Supporting OOXML in LibreOffice Posted Jan 12, 2011 9:25 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]
Yes, it keeps compatibility with version N-1, N-2 and possibly N-3, but not much further. I once tried to open a document I created some years prior in Word 2.0 in some newer version. Ooops! Big mistake.
Supporting OOXML in LibreOffice Posted Jan 12, 2011 10:32 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] Well of course. At some point they need to mop up the people who haven't upgraded earlier ;^)
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