Saswata Banerjee wrote:
On 2/4/2010 12:30 PM, Saswata Banerjee wrote:
On 2/4/2010 12:24 PM, steve wrote:
On 02/04/2010 11:52 AM, Saswata Banerjee wrote:
Hi Guys, I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files. They have provided a add-in converter. If you have MsOffice on your PC and you double click an odt file, it gets the converter (once only) and installs it in MsOffice
I found this when a business associate to whom i send a odt file was able to open it without issues :-)
Not much of an achievement considering that the odt format is an *open* format, so anyone who can read specifications and write software to match those can create a odt reader/editor, unlike proprietary formats (or in case of ooxml bad, over general and patent dependent ^standard^), where creating a reader/writer is not only a technical issue (if the format has to be reverse engineered) but also a legal issue (if implementing such software would imply 'infringing' on patents).
So, basically it is the same as Microsoft's contribution to the linux kernel -- not really noteworthy since they do it only because they can.
Steve, I was looking at it as an achievement for Open Office since its not done because Microsoft Can, but because they are forced to provide it as their clients need it.
cheers,
- steve
oops Just found out that it was not microsoft that made the converter. http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter/files/
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.m...