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

[Chris Puttick]

Maybe we should separate out the different versions? And then add a
footnote to each entry marked as more than one or no star [1] with Sun
plugin <link>?

Chris

On 12/09/2007, Peter Vandenabeele <peter at vandenabeele.com> wrote:
> 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
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