Office + OpenDocument, Never Say Never

barryfreed writes "There's a blog entry by Andy Updegrove at ConsortiumInfo.org that says Microsoft has officially stated to him that support of OpenDocument in MS Office could happen. Microsoft sent the statement in a response to an article Updegrove wrote called Massachusetts and OpenDocument: A Brave New World?"

Comments

Re:It will happen!

[Ingolfke]

They will find way to still make money off it however

How dare they! Those evil corporations.

offically could ==

[Gaima]

un-officially won't.

ActiveOpenDocument-X!

[tnk1]

Say Hello to ActiveOpenDocument-X! It's just like OpenDocument only it's more fully featured!!!*

*New features require Microsoft Office Vista XP 2008 Professional and .Net for best results.

Retardedness

[OneByteOff]

FTA :
"and also to lessen the likelihood that public information will not become inaccessible in the future"

lessen the likelihood..... that public information... *will not become inaccessible*

-- 2010 --
User : "I can't access Files on the Server"
Admin: "Yeah thats just part of the IT Policy"
User : "WTF?!?"
Admin: "Yeah I know, it's fucked up but I didn't write it..."

Re:Retardedness

[Anon.Pedant]

"A true genious will try and be able to express himself as simple as possible."

I, on the other hand, would prefer to express myself as simply as possible. I guess I'll never be a "true genious" (or a true genius either).

Also, "try and be able to" is unnecessary verbiage. Why not say: "A true genius will express himself as simply as possible."

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- Anonymous Pedant

P.S. You really shouldn't hate people, it's bad karma.

Let's just ditch Word.

[CyricZ]

I don't know why people are putting up with all these shenanigans from Microsoft. This should be an indicator to everyone that they're only out to hassle the community.

As such, any product organization should begin to switch to a system such as LaTeX for their document formatting needs. And for those who suggest that it is too complex for memos and other smaller documents, the perfect answer to that is to just stick with plain text files.

While the learning curve of something like LaTeX is a bit more than that of Word, it is far more powerful. Using a system such as LaTeX you can easily produce some very complex documents, and they look great. You don't have to worry about proprietary binary or XML formats, because LaTeX source files are plain text files. You can easily transmit them in source form, or you can create PDF documents when you need the presentation to be exact.

Could happen...

[DJCater]

USA could go metric.