{"id":334,"date":"2007-09-24T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2007-09-24T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:40:46","slug":"why-open-office-does-not-importexport-microsoft-office-open-xml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/334-why-open-office-does-not-importexport-microsoft-office-open-xml.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Open Office does not import\/export Microsoft Office Open XML"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting opinion<\/a> [Slashdot] from someone who says he is one of the founders of NeoOffice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Yes, OpenXML import and export could be integrated into OOo [Open Office] today but engineering politics and Sun’s manipulation of the project to foment a document format war have kept this functionality out of OOo, doing nothing except harm users that need to seamlessly integrate with MS Office environments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m inclined to agree. If niche player DocumentsToGo<\/a> can implement this feature, is it so hard for Open Office<\/a>? I doubt it. Now, I am sure that any such feature would not be perfect – but import\/export features never are. Equally, I’d expect that it would work fine with the vast majority of documents that people email back and forth every day.<\/p>\n

See also A Plague on both your houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PS Microsoft could also do a much better job with ODF import\/export. These problems are more political than technical.<\/p>\n

Update: note that according to this document<\/a> “Office 12 import” is planned for the 3.0 release of Open Office, which is due in September 2008<\/a>. There are no stated plans for export.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: open office<\/a>, ooxml<\/a>, odf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting opinion [Slashdot] from someone who says he is one of the founders of NeoOffice: Yes, OpenXML import and export could be integrated into OOo [Open Office] today but engineering politics and Sun’s manipulation of the project to foment a document format war have kept this functionality out of OOo, doing nothing except harm users … Continue reading Why Open Office does not import\/export Microsoft Office Open XML<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}