Comments for: Office 2007 SP2 to add native PDF, ODF support

#3. Posted at 03:37 PM on May 21st 2008, Edited at 03:39 PM on May 21st 2008

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Forge

ODF > XPS in every way.

This is victory. MS accepts the de facto ODF standard and the faux OOXML standard can now wither and die.

Victory. Now we all hope that MS doesn't attempt another go at embrace/extend/extinguish. ODF is ODF, change it and it's nothing.

#3, I agree, ODF is ODF. I hope they don't change it. They'll be... : bjm (#4) «

#4, Best wait for a bit after SP2 is out & see what others ma... : bthylafh (#5) «

#5, Agree. Dealing with Microsoft is like dealing with the... : bdwilcox (#13) «

#4, The strange thing about that Java ordeal was that the Mic... : Mithent (#6) «

#6, LOL that's because MS's VM was always partly loaded in... : adisor19 (#8) «

#8, That's funny, because every version of Sun's Java a... : MattMojo (#11) «

#8, LOL, that's completely false, and you're completely... : UberGerbil (#15) «

#9. Posted at 04:09 PM on May 21st 2008

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ssidbroadcast

What about .ods (open spreadsheet) ? Is Excel 07 compatible with that?

#9, ODF (Open Document Format) is the umbrella name for the Open... : AvKn (#14) «

#1. Posted at 03:06 PM on May 21st 2008

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Usacomp2k3

Does ODF have the built-in compression that XPS does?

#1, No. XPS is far more space effecient than ODF is currently. P... : Master Kenobi (#12) «

#2. Posted at 03:21 PM on May 21st 2008

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bthylafh

Yes. ODF is some XML with metadata and your data in a few files, compressed into a zipfile.

Given Microsoft's past "efforts" at compatibility (Internet Explorer, NT's POSIX layer), I fully expect them to sabotage it somehow.

#2, So's OOXML, actually.. just not the same standard, and obvio... : Mithent (#7) «

#7, Except that the XML is mostly a wrapper for the same old ... : axeman (#10) «