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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.'"
I'd argue that Windows live and Zune are not failures. And as for Windows Mobile, while it sucks, they still put it on phones, didn't they?
>>>somehow 5.x and 6.x were skipped (?) in the switch to year branding
According to wikpedia: "Microsoft Office 4.0 was released containing Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0". Then Word was incremented to 7.0, and the Office Suite was unified around Word 7.0, and they all took-on that "7.0" as their number. (Probably to avoid confusing users.)
- This seems to be modus operandi for Microsoft.
Windows NT 1.0 became 3.1 for the initial release.
Windows NT 6.1 is called "seven" (or is it Mojave?).
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Word 2007 can save in ODT
You said:
Office for Mac can not either save or read ODT.
There is no Word 2007 for Mac (only 2008), so these actually do not contradict. Hmm... I should probably go work for Microsoft... :-P
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