[odf-discuss] Office 2007 is not using ECMA Spec

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

You can look at this from a few angles:

1) First, Office 2007 writes out things that are not described in the 
OOXML standard,such as scripts, macros, DRM, etc.  Try encrypting a 
document in Office 2007.  It is not longer even a zip file + XML at that 
point.

2) Also, I've heard reports that Office 2007 does not implement all of the 
features described in the OOXML specification. I haven't verified this 
myself, but I've seen reports that using some of the extensibility 
features of Part 5 of the standard will cause Word to crash.

3) Keep in mind as well that Office 14 (Office 2009) has been in progress 
for over a year now.  The beta 1 release will be in early 2008. Presumably 
this has already extended OOXML as needed to handle the new features of 
Office 2009.

-Rob


odf-discuss-bounces at opendocumentfellowship.com wrote on 12/18/2007 
06:15:11 PM:

> A question, apparently Office 2007 is not using the ECMA standard:
> 
> Does anyone know the specifics of the difference between the ECMA 
> Standard or for that matter DIS29500 and the OOXML being used in Office?
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