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Subject: Re: [office] Possible teleconference with Burton
Patrick: They have funded an open source project to do this. "Microsoft officials separately announced that they will start a project on open source development site SourceForge.net next month to produce tools to convert files in Office's binary formats--.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc. directly into OOXML." Credit where credit due. Duane On 1/21/08 10:25 AM, "Patrick Durusau" <patrick@durusau.net> wrote: > Carol, > > I created a login so I could download and read the origin report. > > I find it deeply amusing that the author of the report did not seem to > notice that OOXML does not define a mapping from legacy files to its XML > format. Hmmm, I guess that means that "...everyone [will do] what right > in his own eyes. Judges 21:25 In other words, there will be no one DOCX > representation of Word 97 files but as many as people who decide to > write mappings from Word 97 to DOCX. Some of them will be pretty close > to each other but without a "standard" I rather doubt they are all going > to be the same. > > Hope you are having a great day! > > Patrick > > > > > > Carol Geyer wrote: >> OASIS has been in contact with Burton Group concerning their report, "What's >> Up >> Doc?"--as has IBM, ODF Alliance, Sun, and others. >> >> As a result, Burton analyst, Guy Creese, has published a blog post entitled, >> "Some Counterpoint to Our ODF/OOXML Report." >> (http://ccsblog.burtongroup.com/collaboration_and_content/2008/01/counterpoin >> t- >> to.html). Creese notes that Burton plans to update the report in the next >> quarter "...with an eye to (1) accepting or rebutting arguments made by >> others, >> (2) taking into account the result of the ISO vote, and (3) clarifying points >> that people misunderstood or misinterpreted." >> >> Since that update would be several months away, Burton has also agreed to >> participate in a public teleconference with OASIS to discuss errors, >> allegations, and bias in their report. >> >> I am working now to schedule this teleconference, which will likely take >> place >> the week of 4 Feb. I'll send more details soon. >> >> Regards, >> Carol >> >> _________________________________ >> Carol Geyer >> Director of Communications >> OASIS >> +1.978.667.5115 x209 >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >> generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS >> at: >> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >> >> >> >> -- ********************************************************************** "Speaking only for myself" Senior Technical Evangelist - Adobe Systems, Inc. Blog - http://technoracle.blogspot.com Community Music - http://www.mix2r.com My Band - http://www.myspace.com/22ndcentury Adobe MAX 2008 - http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2007/08/adobe-max-2008.html **********************************************************************
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