News Comment All comments on news story: Microsoft Office document dependencies keep desktop Linux niche It's a reply to comment: As if! by: Bob Robertson  And Microsoft _knows_this_! They continually play up the idea that Microsoft products are compatible with each other, but other software producers just cannot be bothered to be compatible with them like Microsoft does. Over and over they talk about "interoperability", and then change their formats again to prevent anyone else from being "interoperable". Exactly the way they tried to get OOXML forced through the ISO standards body, and then they change it when they build Office2007 so that even if someone implemented OOXML as specified (which is impossible), it still wouldn't work with Office2007. They are liars, and deserve to have their empire of lies crumble around them. Re: As if! by: nycace36  Yep, right on the nose! It Managers should also hold onto this modified HW Tech Support mantra: "If it fully works using ODF, then it will certainly work in OOXML. OTOH beware guys and gals, if it fully works in M$-OOXML, then it just may NOT work in ODF." Lazy Users by: davcefai  Apart from what Bob Robertson said in the previous post there is also the problem that USERS RESIST CHANGE. I have actually lived this scenario. You get mumbled and vague reasons why OOo is unsuitable for them. What it boils down to is that the menus are slightly different and so the poor dears are so totally confused. Please note that I am an OOo user in a company dominated by MS Office and I have no compatibility problems.
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