[odf-discuss] News on MS pluggin

[Alex Hudson]

Thomas Zander wrote:
> I know a thing or two about word processor internals, and the loading of the 
> document into mem is just a small part of the startup time.
>   

I'm don't know about wordprocessing, but it's demonstrably not the case
for the spreadsheet format.

> In the end I don't see any of the problems you see with the points marbux 
> made. In fact, I think the best thing for Ms actually is to use an 
> intermediate binary format (in memory) in order to avoid regressions.

Whether or not it's the best way is beside the point - I haven't seen
any evidence of that being MS' implementation strategy anywhere, and I
try to keep up with OXML developments.

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