Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Nov 2005 16:36 UTC, submitted by Andy Updegrove
"Yesterday, Microsoft let the other shoe drop in a two-pronged attack on the support that has been building for the OpenDocument OASIS Format. It's still far too early to say that the dust has settled, but I'll attempt to pull together here the most significant pieces of information that I've located since last night's post, and what it all means."
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2005-07-06
And rather than just telling me that what I've done is "daft," could someone actually explain whether I am right on this point or not?
Basically you described how onerous and how much of a chore it would be for Apple to support ODF when they already support Microsoft's Office formats - in a fashion. That's just daft.
As I understand it, ODF is a single file format that represents multiple kinds of document - text, spreadsheet, presentation.
Well that can't be true otherwise you could only represent a set limit of information.
Surely this must cause problems with those Office suites (i.e. most of them) that use seperate programs to handle each kind of file?
Nope. Open Office does it. KOffice is doing it.