Corel apparantly did an impressive handbrake turn yesterday, because it confirmed it will support ODF-- an obvious shift in position seeing it only a week ago said it wouldn't. But that is not all on the ODF front today. Microsoft yesterday also opened the door to supporting ODF just a bit more. "Microsoft is working with a French company on translators to determine the scope of the problem in exporting Office documents to ODF. It sounds to me that support for "Save As" ODF in Office is a when, not an if." Andy Updegrove, who recently critized Corel heavily for not supporting ODF, replies.
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Member since:2005-10-02
Logic as old as time.
So true, so true. I don't think you can find a company who haven't lied to some extent some time.
Just look at commercials. They always claim to better than the competitor no matter if it's true or not. That's the way it is.
The fact that MS and Corel are considering ODF-support is not a surprise. Of course they are considering it. If enough customers switch to a ODF-supporting application then they lose money. It's that simple.
Member since:2005-06-29
It's not a simple of course. If Microsoft supports ODF it gives customers an easy way to migrate to other Office suites.
What amazes me is that they're working with a French company to do it... I cannot believe that implementing ODF is going to be any harder than writing a new save "macro/plugin/module" which doesn't necessarily save everything. If it is, wow, I didn't realize their development methods were that bad.
Maybe they're just looking for some excuse to try and get out of doing it. I wouldn't be surprised if they already have the code to do it cause somebody got bored one afternoon or two.
Member since:
2005-06-29
Why oh why is this company so completely incapable of telling anything straight.
The answer is in your question. It's a company. They want to make money. Money + people = lies. Microsoft isn't special in this regard. It's just that very few companies today have such an impact on our daily lives (so that the company's errors become more apparent).
Logic as old as time.