Microsoft’s support for ODF docs – don‘t hold your breath

[IronBits]

Last week, Microsoft announced support for the ODF document format in Microsoft Office. But don't get too excited about it, for it'll be long time coming.
The support for ODF documents won't come until sometime in the first half of 2009 with the release of the next Service Pack for Office 2007. In other words it could take a year or more to see ODF support in Office 2007 and at least 7 months from now.


http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=625

Thanks Paratima :)

[alpha]

It's a shame, because I was excited when I first heard the news. Not having to convert all my work to .doc or exporting to PDF just to please recipients would be great. Oh well, just keep on waiting.

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Sorry but **** M$haft, get open office, does the job will read pretty much all .doc formats maybe even 2007, 1 click to pdf (legally) ODF as standard and wait for it saving as a web page actually works giving you clear clean code, one where you don't need to go through it and remove the crap put in...
www.openoffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org)..
Free - 100% okay so no e-mail client but everything else
Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint.. does the job for me.

[alpha]

gopher, maybe you misunderstood me, or maybe you weren't replying to my post, but I'll explain anyway. I'm an avid OpenOffice user, I was just trying to say that if MS Office supported the ODF file format then I wouldn't have to convert my documents to .doc before sending them to people. I love OO, and indeed, 1-click PDF exporting is great! :)

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

alpha, was replying to initial posting not yours - I must admit I have to use Office 2k at work we've not seen the need to go any newer + it works (for now) ...
IF MS supported ODF it wouldn't be ODF it would be MS ODF, like IE with it's "quirky" HTML formating of elements..

[Paratima]

M$ offers up the Open XML SDK version 1.0. No, it's not 100% compatible with the ISO standard, but it's a start. Says they expect "complete" compatibility sometime in 2009.

Here's the linky: http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=639

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

well maybe something ending in a "9", I'm sorry but MS seem to think they can write their own standards for something even if standards are out and then expect everyone to follow them...

If only open office came with a mail client to rival MS Outlook well then we'd have a fight..

[Paratima]

If only open office came with a mail client to rival MS Outlook well then we'd have a fight..
Amen! :thumbs:

[Max Dettweiler]

well maybe something ending in a "9", I'm sorry but MS seem to think they can write their own standards for something even if standards are out and then expect everyone to follow them...

If only open office came with a mail client to rival MS Outlook well then we'd have a fight..
I am a big fan of Mozilla Thunderbird, but unfortunately it's more comparable to Outlook Express than Outlook, since without addons it only does basic email. You can add a calendar extension (Sunbird) to it, though--I haven't tried it, so I don't know how much of Outlook's abilities it replicates.

[IronBits]

Give this a good read then. http://www.eudora.com/press/2003/03_25_03.html
Eudora, Netscape, Opera and Notes all support Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh as well

Evolution will look familiar to Outlook users, and can even act as an e-mail client on Linux machines hooked up to Microsoft's Exchange corporate mail system.

it has a couple of extra features, such as the ability to view "threads" of messages from an initial e-mail through subsequent replies and the ability to organize mail by putting the same message in two or more "virtual folders" without copying it.

fer winders
http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?product_id=&search=Search&build_type=SDBuildBean&families=3402&version=&date_range=&keywords=&x=34&y=7
(http://www.ximian.com)

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Yeah got Outlook at work but it's used as basic e-mail client, with a few "reminders" set, that's about it,global address book.
Running off Exchange 5.5 (I know, I know but well looked at pricing model for newer Exchange and I'm sorry it's just freaking SILLY for what we need).
Pay it, use only basically 2/5 of the product if that.