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Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad
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."
Yes but Microsoft said that it'd be different this time and they've changed, they really have, and they don't mean to hurt you but baby you just don't understand that when you can't keep your pretty little mouth shut then sometimes need a slap for your own good.
I might be confusing Microsoft with a wife beater, but the mentality is roughly the same it seems.
Syllable : It's an Operating System
MS, a for-profit company, refuses to embrace a format that gives an advantage to their open-source free competitors? Surely not!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Bloody hell. I wonder why they would ever want to ship a software product that did that.
You must be new here. (grin)
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Now that'll be good for some fun calls to customer support.
Say what you will about Microsoft, but I'll start using Linux on my production machines when I want to start losing money. Get the facts, people.
As they also claim Microsoft Windows is Posix compliant! It is simply to be able to tic a "mandated" requirement in some government procurement, not as something one would actually use or deploy.
Ah, I think you might have misread that one. The latest version of Windows is fully compliant with the ISO's 'Piece of Shit v9' standard. POS IX, not POSIX.
I might be confusing Microsoft with a wife beater, but the mentality is roughly the same it seems.
What do you tell a user with two black eyes?
(I propose that the answer is "Did you really think Apple was different from Microsoft?" but that might not win me too many points around here. The converse would work almost as well, but nobody would have believed that Microsoft was the good guys.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Nothing. He's already been told twice.
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I dont see why you're comparing MS to congress. Why not compare it to being eaten by a shark (with frikkin laser beams if thats your thing) or abducted by aliens.
Congress doesn't have a history of lying to people... oh hang on
Congress doesn't have a history of screwing the public for money/business interests... wait a minute..
Congress... errr.. never mind
Also... uTorrent isnt open source.
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I'm waiting for the Microsoft Knowledgebase article explaining the incompatibility and showing you how to fix the problem by using the Save As function and selecting the .XLSX type.
Seems the pigs took a trip to the airport, but then failed to achieve take off
Hey, it is different. Hence not compatible.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"We recommend your implementation does not set fire to the user's house, rape his dog nor feed chicken to the fish."
- Oh, but boss, that's just a _recommendation_. So technically we could do the latter three and still be compliant with the letter of the specification!
- These characters were randomly selected.
> Microsoft said that it'd be different this time and they've changed,
Damn it, I voted for change this time. I want my change.
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To really add flavor to the discussion, let us further assume that planet Earth is spherical, and space is pretty big.
Because you look ridiculous claiming you were able to follow the standard for reading documents, but unable to do so when writing them?
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
For posting that link on /. I hereby bow before you and acknowledge that, you sir, indeed have balls of extraordinary magnitude.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Godwin'd!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
> But how do they "force" MS to do anything
Doh, how do Governments force people to do stuff? Just jail the people at the top of MS in the relevant countries. If they refuse to go to jail, send people authorized to inflict force and violence to drag them off to jail.
That's well within the authority of any country which MS operates in.
You don't even have to fine at all. Once you start jailing top executives, they'll start taking things really seriously.
After all, if you're a CEO, the fines don't really come out of your pocket[1].
But time in prison comes out of your lifespan.
[1] They might in theory affect your bonus etc, but in practice just look at the AIGs of the world.
Am I the only person who reads that extension aloud as "Ex-Lax"?
Actually, the first two times I read it, it parsed as "Excel sucks."
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
I believe that recent medical research has shown that ball size is inversely proportional to IQ.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
One thing you can say in Microsoft's defense, though -- they've really cut down the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish cycle. Remember when it took like years for them to go through that?
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Wow, the first link is already Slashdotted. Headers:
HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
[wow, that's not what the error page said at all!]
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
[gee, what a surprise!]
Content-Length: 3855
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 19:25:43 GMT
[GMT? c'mon, this is a computer; say "UTC" or get a real clock!]
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Maybe (random conspiracy theory). Or perhaps you just messed up the link (Internet archive, Google, et al. have never heard of it).
$ make available
I assume you've heard the expression, "hung like a horse"?
Yes, but for someone even more well endowed I prefer the expression "hung like windows".
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