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

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, many items on the Fellowship's Application page 
are out of date, and many new items (such as Sun's plug-in) are 
missing. It's the usual problem of not enough volunteers with the 
time to keep things up to date.

--Jean