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Re: MS will just support OpenDocument =)
by abe on Saturday 24/Sep/2005, @10:30

OpenDocument doesn't have inferiorities, it just doesn't have some features that can be easily adopted after they are approved and agreed to by its committee. OpenDocument is XML based and the "X" stands for eXtensible, meaning, it is flexible and can be enhanced at will and any features and capabilities that it doesn't have yet can be added very easily. So where are the inferiorities? MS Yates would like you to believe it is but in actuality, OpenDocument is very powerful.

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Re: MS will just support OpenDocument =)
by Boemer on Saturday 24/Sep/2005, @10:59

OpenDocument has a few problems, like formula's in SpreadSheets. But I think it is a good start, maybe in a version 2.0 of OpenDocument, they can solves such problems.

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Re: MS will just support OpenDocument =)
by Andy on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @03:48

Can you please be more specific? Someone from OASIS wrote that in 2004 too and they had to bang their heads a lot to solve it. But nobody spits out _what_ that problem actually was.

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Spreadsheat Formula: undefined
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @11:11

If I understand the issue right, the format and meaning of formulae in the spreadsheats is not defined in the standard. So products are left in the open, implementing some or other look-alike of the Excel's formula implementation. Portability? Interoperability? Scriptability? Forget it.

To keep ti short: they are undefined.

Bu I did not really go and checked with the standard text, so I might be completely wrong.

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Re: MS will just support OpenDocument =)
by Jess Sightler on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @12:14

I'm not familiar with the spec, but I think most opinions on the weaknesses for spreadsheets have come from this article:

http://blogs.gnome.org/view/mortenw/2005/06/16/0

It appears that some fairly important things are left missing or underspecified by the spreadsheet specification.

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Re: MS will just support OpenDocument =)
by richlv on Monday 26/Sep/2005, @00:04

points raised seem valid (though i haven't read the specification to verify them), but i don't get one thing - why didn't he give his input when od was created ?

also, i would really like to see a response and/or explanation to these points by od-tc member, anybode seen something like that ?

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