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Embracing and Extending Microsoft Office
ReadWriteWeb writes "In an interview with ex-Excite founder and current JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus, Richard McManus explores the Web Office and how JotSpot aims to 'embrace and extend' some of Microsoft's office products. Kraus explains how JotSpot went about extending Excel's basic functionality in three ways: sharing spreadsheets, every row is a wiki page, and the ability to mashup data from your own hard drive with data on the Web. Although JotSpot won't challenge Microsoft's office software supremacy with a web-based office suite, expect Google to rise to the challenge of building an interconnected suite of networked office applications."
MS Office is already incompatible with itself. Have you ever tried to open an old (say, '97) file in Office 2003? Ironically enough, Open Office is more compatible with old MS Office formats than modern MS Office is -- that's why my company has to use OOo, because we get a LOT of documents from people who are still using 10-year-old software.
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You're right, but I meant same version of Office, but one with JotSpot's "extensions", and the other without. In other words, apart from the other incompatibilities that already exist, this will add yet another.