Re(1): GNOME/OOXML podcast shows two sides closer than appears
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 78.113.144.230]
on December 07, 2007 01:23 AM
It might depends on where you live.
Several state services in France are migrating toward OOo, potentially millions of users in a single country. There is some demands that contractor put files in Office97 and OOo formats on the website they produce for public services (or more accurately doc and odt, for Writer Word and csv for Excel Calc), and I've received the odd OOo file from some services (with an Excel version next to it). (N.B. For communication, PDF is a bit more important. Office documents are only useful if you need to modify them).
The result of state migrating toward OOo is companies adapting (they have tax to pay to the state, and require some services from it), so OOo appears next to MS Office on many computers. (Which is normal if you consider that fiscal rules requires to keep documents on period higher than 5 years, the consideration for a long term solution is more astute than those of companies working on a 5 years scale, so the companies have to adapt themselves to regulations which solve some sort of prisoner dilemma).
Office 2007 (and Vista BTW) appears only on brand new computer in small company (i.e without a corporate disk image for a standardized set of application on each computer), or on the computers of some high ranking IT worker (private or public sector, who evaluate apps, format, etc...). When they have no choice.
So, yes Office 2007 in my experience is way behind OOo. (So is Vista compared to Linux distributions in IT offices).
Also, for a reference on Office 2007 non conformance to OOXML I can only pinpoint to an article by NATO/NC3A in the french publication MISC N°32 for July/August 2007 (for example accepting UTF7 encoding while the specification only mention UTF8 and UTF16).
Regards,
Pierre-Louis Morel (Wondering why I can't get paragraph in the preview from the text field with
or [p] and if the form is using CR+LF to delimit paragraph instead of LF, which would be quite ironic on a website named linux.com ...)
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Re(1): GNOME/OOXML podcast shows two sides closer than appears
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 78.113.144.230] on December 07, 2007 01:23 AMSeveral state services in France are migrating toward OOo, potentially millions of users in a single country. There is some demands that contractor put files in Office97 and OOo formats on the website they produce for public services (or more accurately doc and odt, for Writer Word and csv for Excel Calc), and I've received the odd OOo file from some services (with an Excel version next to it). (N.B. For communication, PDF is a bit more important. Office documents are only useful if you need to modify them).
The result of state migrating toward OOo is companies adapting (they have tax to pay to the state, and require some services from it), so OOo appears next to MS Office on many computers. (Which is normal if you consider that fiscal rules requires to keep documents on period higher than 5 years, the consideration for a long term solution is more astute than those of companies working on a 5 years scale, so the companies have to adapt themselves to regulations which solve some sort of prisoner dilemma).
Office 2007 (and Vista BTW) appears only on brand new computer in small company (i.e without a corporate disk image for a standardized set of application on each computer), or on the computers of some high ranking IT worker (private or public sector, who evaluate apps, format, etc...). When they have no choice.
So, yes Office 2007 in my experience is way behind OOo. (So is Vista compared to Linux distributions in IT offices).
Also, for a reference on Office 2007 non conformance to OOXML I can only pinpoint to an article by NATO/NC3A in the french publication MISC N°32 for July/August 2007 (for example accepting UTF7 encoding while the specification only mention UTF8 and UTF16).
Regards,
Pierre-Louis Morel (Wondering why I can't get paragraph in the preview from the text field with
or [p] and if the form is using CR+LF to delimit paragraph instead of LF, which would be quite ironic on a website named linux.com ...)
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