[odf-discuss] Should we mention "Microsoft Office + Sun plug-in" as an "ODF supporting" application ?

[Peter Vandenabeele]

Hi,

As I was revisiting some of the pages that Chris Puttick is refering
to on his

  http://iso26300.info

page, I came across the ODF application support page of the
Opendocumentfellowship (pointed to as "list of supporting
applications" by Chris):

  http://opendocumentfellowship.org/applications

There is see

  Application 	         Native 	Status 	  Platform
  ...
  Microsoft Office  	    No 	        1 star 	   Windows

where the "1 star" means:

  "work has started"

Actually by now, I consider the combination of Office 2003 and the
Sun plug-in to offer quite good (90% would be my number) support
of ODF in Microsoft Office 2003. So, in practice, by adding the Sun
plug-in, to me Microsoft Office 2003 (+ Sun plug-in) offers very decent
ODF support.

I believe it is beneficial for the case of ODF to mention that also MS
Office (+ plug-in), with it's large curent market share, has good
support for ODF.

We will obviously discuss this topic on the "ODF Camp" in Barcelona:

  http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/odf_camp.html

and an upfront online discussion seems quite useful.

In another reference from the page of Chris, I also slightly updated
(corrected) the "Belgium" entry on the ODF adoption page on Wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption

Sincerely,

Peter