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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:What did we expect? by houstonbofh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nobody would have believed that Microsoft was the good guys.

    Actually there was a time when Microsoft was hailed as the white knight in the shiny armor freeing us from the evil IBM empire.

    Like Google... (dire sounding chords)

  2. I tried as well by Jon.Laslow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Opened Word 2007 SP2, created a document, saved as Open Document Text (.odt), closed Word and opened it with OpenOffice.org 3.0 -- worked like a champ.