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Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the are-you-really-surprised dept.

David Gerard writes "Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 claims support for ODF 1.1. With hard work and careful thinking, they have successfully achieved technical compliance but zero interoperability! MSO 2007sp2 won't read ODF 1.1 from any other existing application, and its ODF is only readable by the CleverAge plugin. The post goes into detail as to how it manages this so thoroughly."

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  1. Re:Really? by plague3106 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So the "solution" is to release a half finihsed spec and then just "do what everyone else does?" Isn't that exactly what people complained about MS doing? It sounds like ODF screwed themselves... because MS IS now compliant, and it makes ODF look seriously broken.

    Something would have been better than nothing.

  2. Re:What did we expect? by rzekson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You must be mentally still in the 1980s because I haven't seen a single instance of DLL hell for the last 15 years. In case you missed that, there has been this thing called ".NET" evolving for, like, the past 7 years, which had essentially solved the problem once and for good. Are you still running Windows 1.0, on a steam-powered, 3-bit CPU, or are you just watching a lot of porn these days. If the latter is the case, then you might consider avoid that "premium" content that requires additional "codecs".