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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. Long headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot made this headline unnecessarily long, it should have been just : " Office 2007SP2 Very Bad".

  2. Re:What did we expect? by theaveng · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >>>Microsoft said that it'd be different this time and they've changed, they really have

    For all their flaws, Microsoft is still better than Congress. Microsoft can't suck money directly from my paycheck, toss me in jail if I refuse to let them into my house, or draft me to die in some mudhole in Vietnam or Afghanistan.

    Oh well. I'll just keep boycotting MS products like I've always done. I use Windows for compatibility, but open-source for everything else: VLC, WinAmp, OpenOffice, Utorrent, et cetera.

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    FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
  3. 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)

  4. 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.

  5. The "great ion.simIAn.c" (NOT), see inside by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)

    GOOGLE didn't fail, YOU DID (as usual, per this reply AND the list of your screwups here I enumerate below in this exchange)...

    See this -> http://www.pcmech.com/article/defragging-the-windows-page-file/ (& the comment by "SuperFluid" there)

    YOU can't even GOOGLE something right, lol...

    LOL, trouble is, you're showing yourself to be nothing more than a "I can't do anything w/out GOOGLE" type online... and, you say you're a programmer? PROVE IT (how do you like it? That's the kind of crap you've been saying to me & I provide proof below... lol, you do not & have NOTHING LIKE THE LISTS I PROVIDE BELOW, to your credit)

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    "I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)

    For Sunbelt Software (I'll save you the time there) to whom we contracted out wares we had written, thru LC (& also MANY years later, in 2003, when I fixed up his pagedefrag program, instructing him where it was hardcoded and how/why it could adversely affect the operations of his application if people moved their pagefile.sys location (which is doable on both accounts) to another disk (he had them hardcoded to C: drive only, & it made his program fail - he emailed me back thanking me in fact).

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    "You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)

    I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!

    (However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...

    NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:

    http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
    http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
    http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
    http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
    http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135

    (AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)

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    "You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#2