Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

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#61

Dotan Cohen wrote (12-09-11 20:52)

One team at MS works on MS Office, another on the OOXML standard.

.docx != ooxml
(the MsOffice 2007/2010 file format is not the standard OOXML)

#62

This is also valid in an academic setting. My experience with Open
Office while in university: the professors made available Word
documents. If your computer could not read it, then use the computer
in the library to print it. End of story.

#63

Not that I consider Wikipedia as an authoritative source, but this
states quite clearly that it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docx

#64

I see, the old argument that the source code is the standard. I
thought that this was a technical discussion, not a religious one.
Sorry, wrong room.

#65

DO NOT worry.
LibreOffice will not stop using Word formats for loading and saving. LibreOffice wants to be your MSO alternative. If it does not support MSO formats, then it cannot be, thus it should not happen. Actually, every new 3.4.x update reads/writes the newest MSO formats better than the previous one [as far as I can tell and heard from others].

I do not like the idea of people wanting LO to dump its main compatibility feature that is needed if we want LO to gain market share as a replacement to MSO in businesses and governments. MSO file formats are the business standard. LO will support that standard. I would like to see ODF become the standard, now that is the ISO for office file formats. MSO formats will still be used by businesses even if ODF takes over, so at that point LO will still need to support MSO formats.

#66

Dotan Cohen wrote (14-09-11 10:17)

Dotan Cohen wrote (12-09-11 20:52)

.docx != ooxml
(the MsOffice 2007/2010 file format is not the standard OOXML)

Not that I consider Wikipedia as an authoritative source, but this
states quite clearly that it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docx

It states that MsOffice 2007/2010 supports OOXML to a certain level and refers to the promises that future versions will do better.

#67

In addition, these are stated:

"Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats
have become the default target file format of Microsoft Office,
although the Strict variant of the standard is not yet fully
supported."

"Office Open XML Document Filename extension: .docx or .docm"

#68

Yeah, because it's totally easier to reverse-engineer and decompile
Microsoft Office than to read the publicly accessible LibreOffice code...