On 3 April 2010 14:22, Michel Roche listes.pichel@free.fr wrote:
Le 02/04/2010 05:51, Theo Schmidt a écrit :
With DOCX I'm uncertain what do do now that OpenOffice can open these files. When somebody sends me one I somtimes pretend I still can't open it and ask for a PDF, RTF or even (Horror!) DOC. I generally explain that DOCX is a bad idea because the majority of people can't open it, i.e. everybody who hasn't got an up-to-date program or plugin. I expect this actually includes more Windows-users than Linux-users.
The point in docX is that actually OpenOffice (>3.x) users can perfectly handle them (at least for quite simple documents that represent, say, 99% of the production) whereas users of somewhat old versons of MS Office cannot read them. At this peculiar time, it's a very good help making users migrate or at least install OpenOffice :-) So despite the fact tha docX *is a bad idea*, it's inherent lack of backward compatibility helps a lot Free Software in some cases :-)))
Heh. That's a reason to send people .docx then ;-)
- d.