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Simon Williams wrote: > 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. > That's true, didn't think of that. Rob -- 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