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Progress on the Road to World DominationProgress on the Road to World DominationPosted Jul 19, 2002 12:59 UTC (Fri) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)Parent article: The road to World Domination
InteroperabilityWhile the newest free office suites may not deal well with Microsoft's file formats, Star Office reads and writes them happily. I've used Star Office 6 since it's beta [Disclaimer: I work for Sun] and worked predominantly with folks who use Word and Excel without difficulty. Even when MS changes file formats, they still have to keep supporting the previous version for a while, to allow everyone who is still using Office 2000 to continue working with folks using the new Office XP. If they didn't, they would be unable to convince anyone to upgrade to XP! As we found in the IBM plug-compatable days, if there is backwards compatibility, even for limited periods, compeditors won't be excluded from the market, and they will have the time to write filters or converters from the new format to the old. So I expect to keep using Star Office to cooperate with my office-XP friends, with only occasional inconveniences.
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