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."

Comments

Re:What did we expect?

[Vanders]

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.

I'm shocked!

[elrous0]

MS, a for-profit company, refuses to embrace a format that gives an advantage to their open-source free competitors? Surely not!

Re:What did we expect?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:They also claim Windows supports Posix

[wild_quinine]

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.

Re:What did we expect?

[drinkypoo]

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.)

Re:What did we expect?

[Phreakiture]

What do you tell a user with two black eyes?

Nothing. He's already been told twice.

Re:Agreed ... interoperability harms Microsoft

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Ok, let's assume they were malicious and all they worried about was lock-in."

To really add flavor to the discussion, let us further assume that planet Earth is spherical, and space is pretty big.

"Why break the reading part?"

Because you look ridiculous claiming you were able to follow the standard for reading documents, but unable to do so when writing them?

Re:What did we expect?

[Atzanteol]

And a time when Hitler was the savior of Germany.

Godwin'd!