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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.
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'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.
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
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!