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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."

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  1. Re:What did we expect? by Vanders · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. I'm shocked! by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. Re:They also claim Windows supports Posix by wild_quinine · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:What did we expect? by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.)

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  5. Re:What did we expect? by Phreakiture · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you tell a user with two black eyes?

    Nothing. He's already been told twice.

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