[odf-discuss] Microsoft wins prize for "Best Campaigner against OOXML Standardization"

[marbux]

On 10/2/07, Chris Puttick <cputtick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/10/2007, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > IMHO, you've misunderstood this issue from the very beginning. The plain
> > fact is that MS Office supports some features that have no equivalents
> in
> > OOo, and vice versa. See <
> http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/features.html>.
> <snip>
>
> This list is simply inaccurate and should not be used for evidence of
> anything other than the capabilities of lack thereof of the creators.
> I do not know who compiled it, but I have noted that it confuses
> OpenOffice and OpenDocument, and already demonstrated that several
> claims on it of deficiency in ODF/OO.org are just plain wrong.


Most of it is accurate and a recorded weakness in OOo other than Office
features that can not be mapped to ODF is in effect a defect in the ODF
conformance section. The data is derived from a collaborative project among
Novell, Microsoft, and Clever Age that is attempting to establish a degree
of interoperability between OOo and MS Office via ODF <> MOOXML.



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