Please make a new topic, don't spoil this thread > -----Original Message----- > From: NoOp [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice dead and burried? > > On 05/19/2011 11:03 AM, Andras Timar wrote: > > 2011/5/19 plino <[email protected]>: > >> > >> Then I think it's time to create a proper C/C++ ODF importer for > >> Word. If this worked properly then this would be a further step in > >> promoting ODF as a "de facto" open format alternative. > >> > > > > ODF support is present in MS Office 2007 SP2 and MS Office 2010 (it > > even can be selected as default file format) so what would be your > > target? MS Office 2003 and older? It does not look > reasonable to me, > > because by the time we develop something useable, only a > minority of > > users will use such old versions of MS Office. > > I think you should keep in mind that many users of LO are > folks that simply can't, or won't spend the money to buy > Office 2007 (and hence also need to spend even more money to > upgrade their systems in order to use it). > > There are *millions* of users that are still using WinXP and > older versions of MS Office (think schools, libraries, > individuals, small companies, government offices, etc). > Granted the ideal situation would be to have all of them > install LO, but we know: 1) that just isn't going to happen, > 2) and even if they do install LO, they are not going to > purge their existing versions of MS Office... it just doesn't > work that way. > > An ODF plugin (like the Sun ODF Plugin) could go a long way > in gaining trust for existing MS Office users, particularly > if it does an LO splashscreen when starting as the Sun one > does. However, I also imagine that > creating/converting/maintaining such a program would be a > huge amount of effort/work. So I doubt that it will happen on > LO's watch & think it possible only with the backing of a > major ($$$) corporation such as IBM or similar. > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and > cannot be deleted > > >
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