Am 11.12.2012 11:26, schrieb Matthias Kirschner: ...
Please also have a look at:
http://fsfe.org/activities/os/msooxml-interoperability.en.html
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Also some information http://fsfe.org/activities/os/msooxml-idiosyncrasies.en.html
These are rather dated and technical. Ordinary users, even politicians engaged in liberty, social or green issues, usually don't care about anything except that it works. Is there an FSFE page or elsewhere, which concisely explains to ordinary users the disadvanges of OOXML (and especially DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) and encourages them use, if not ODF, at least RTF and PDF when possible?
Should people be encouraged to use the old DOC, XLS and PPT formats for interoperability in spite of their inferiority?
My own experience is now that I can mostly open DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files in Libre Office, but there are often things missing, e.g. lines of text, columns of data, or complex XLSX documents take ages to load. Is this the "fault" of OOXML, MS-Office, Libre Office or all three?
Cheers, Theo Schmidt