Microsoft implements ODF support(?)
Posted by Saša Bodiroža | Filed under Freedom, Microsoft, Software
The article in IT PRO states that Microsoft will be implementing ODF (OpenDocument format) support in its Office suite:
Microsoft has no date for implementing OOXML on its own platform, but has agreed to implement the rival ODF format on Microsoft Office. Microsoft has given its blessings to ODF by joining the OASIS committees, and to cap it all, a senior Microsoft spokesman has conceded that “ODF has clearly won”.
Microsoft has even volunteered to opt into the ongoing ODF development process which, not without reason, has aroused the suspicions of ODF proponents.
I’m a bit suspicious of Microsoft’s move and if Microsoft has some hidden intentions. But I think it won’t be able to “close” ODF ;).
Here’s a blog post on MSDN which says ODF will be supported in MS Office 2007 Service Pack 2.
And why is this important to me? Most of my friends and professors still use MS Office. I use OpenOffice.org. If I need to send them a document (which needs to be editable, so PDF is not an option), I could do “Here’s the document in ODT (OpenDocument text), play with it”, but that wouldn’t be very nice. I don’t want to force anybody to use something they don’t wish to. So, I convert it to DOC, and then send it to them. But I don’t want to use DOC. And it seems like I’m not going to as soon as MS implements this ODF support. Let’s hope it will release plug-ins for previous MS Offices, too… or that people will switch to OpenOffice.org ;).
In the end, I think this is a good thing for ODF. Whether we like it or not, MS Office has the biggest market share, and by this more people will be able to use ODF for their documents.
Tags: Add new tag, Microsoft, odf, open office, Software
Something-something sucks…
Posted by Saša Bodiroža | Filed under Apple, Microsoft, Misc, Ubuntu
I don’t know how and why I got the idea to do this little test, but I got it. Oh, I was bored at the moment, I guess that’s it :). So, here’s what I did:
- get a company/product name
- check if there’s a <name>sucks.com site
Among Windows’, Mac’s, Red Hat’s and other *sucks.com sites, I tried what happens in case of Ubuntu and Canonical.
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canonicalsucks.com leads to Ubuntu’s page.
- ubuntusucks.com takes you to Launchpad’s bug page for Ubuntu.
I was most surprised by the last one. See… At Ubuntu, they care for their users :sweetface:.
