[odf-discuss] Microsoft will now support ODF

[Daniel Carrera]

I agree. I think this is very good news. This is what we have demanding 
for ages. Now when someone sends a .odt file to an MSO user, MSO won't 
say "file unknown".

What *we* need to do between now and then is help with the test suite 
project under the leadership of Rob Weir. Create a standard of what it 
means to support ODF. Come next year, to the extent that MSO fails to 
pass the conformance tests, we can tell them that they haven't yet 
fulfilled their promise, and the European Union will agree with that. To 
the extent that the test suite is easy to pass because it is incomplete, 
MS will be able to reasonably claim that they conform to ODF because 
they pass the conformance test.

The EU will be keeping a close eye on the development of Microsoft's ODF 
support:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200805220308DOWJONESDJONLINE000403_FORTUNE5.htm

Now what we need to do is make sure that there is a good quality test 
suite to evaluate Microsoft's conformance.

Daniel.


Sigrid Kronenberger wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I just found this article: 
> 
> http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/21/technology/msft.php
> 
> They say, that Microsoft will support ODF as the "default format" (when
> the user makes this choice). 
> 
> I think, this is good news. Now, we just have to wait until next year,
> until the Service pack for Office is distributed. 
> 
> 
> Sigrid
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