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Microsoft Promises To Fully Support OOXML ... Later
Raul654 writes "OOXML is the Word document format that Microsoft rammed through the ISO last year. Last week, we discussed a blog post by Alex Brown, who was instrumental in getting OOXML approved by the ISO. Brown criticized Microsoft for reneging on its promise to support OOXML in the upcoming release of Office 2010, and for its lackadaisical approach to fixing the many bugs which still remain in the specification. Now, Doug Mahugh has responded to Brown's post, promising that Microsoft will support OOXML 'no later than the initial release of Office 15.'"
Office 14 is Office 2010.
So, Office 15 will be the version after 2010.
Word 2007 can save in ODT though. Hah. Even Microsoft cannot make file import/export filters for their own OOXML format.
2003 is Office 11. 2007 is 12, 2010 is 14. So 15 is the next release after this one... Here's to waiting 3+ years for support... Maybe...
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Apparently it's the release after the next one, tentatively planned for 2013.
How they get to 15: They used version numbers through 4.x. Then somehow 5.x and 6.x were skipped (?) in the switch to year branding, and Office 95 was internally Office 7.0. Then it went sequentially for a bit: Office 97 was 8.0, Office 2000 was 9.0, Office XP was 10.0, Office 2003 was 11.0, and the current Office 2007 is 12.0.
Now they plan to skip 13 due to its negative superstition, and make Office 2010 be 14.0. Then the release after that, around 2013, will go back to non-year version numbers, and be Office 15.
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Office for Mac can not either save or read ODT. No ODT plugins or converters available.
in the first paragraph of Mahugh's blog entry ? That one sentence seems to describe it all...
>>That’s why we’ve been looking into the issues and options for Strict support for quite some time.
So, the Frankenstein monster is disowned by its creator. Excellent.
Encourage your clients, friends and families to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Fully supported by all the major office suites, including of course Oo.
You forgot about the inevitable Office 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.95, 14.96, ...
Then they'll get all George Lucas and go directly to Office 20. and tell us they'll go back to do office 15 later.
But in the sense that the year 3520 is after 2010, yes, office 15 will be after office 2010.
Yes, but even if they do office 15 next, we're still looking at an easy 3+ years. The stuff from now won't even be relevant by then, enabling things to still be undocumented and not compatible.
Bullshit.
Mart
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