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Rob Beard wrote: > Simon Williams wrote: >> Rob Beard wrote: >>> Hmmmm.... what is interesting is the fact that by default MS Office >>> doesn't support .odt, .ods and .odp format files. Not at least until >>> Office 2007 SP1 is released. As far as I'm aware the only way of >>> getting support for these files at the moment is with that Sun plugin :-) >> Oh goody. >> > > The point I was trying to make is that MS Office doesn't support the > requirements of the Home Access project whereas OOo does. > > Which means that unless Microsoft pull their finger out, there's going > to be a shed load of machines shipped without MS Office by default and > more likely OOo/StarOffice/That IBM Office suite etc installed instead. Even if M$ does implement ODT we still win because they've lost the officeXML thing. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html