KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone [LWN.net]

KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone

Posted Sep 18, 2009 7:36 UTC (Fri) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
Parent article: KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone

I'm still hoping that one day they will support MS Office formats well. But they seem to be betting on those formats becoming irrelevant some day, and I fear that day may still be a while in coming.

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KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone

Posted Sep 18, 2009 9:18 UTC (Fri) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

As you can see from the KOffice 2.1 beta2 announcement (http://www.koffice.org/news/koffice-2-
1-beta-2-released/), there has been a lot of work recently on supporting at least .doc and .ppt. I
am fairly confident that .docx and .pptx will come as well. Excel compatibility was already quite
good. But, yeah, well, we certainly expect that the importance of binary or xml based MS file
formats will wane, given that many governments are moving to odt.