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2009-08-12 , 08:12
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Originally Posted by nwerneck View Post
It's amazing how Office manages to be incompatible with anaything else. Word and Excel files have grown up into bloated monsters full of unheard-of features that always make programs like open office and mobile versions of the programs break when they read less simple files. I can never fill simple forms that are sent to me because they are never opened quite right in openoffice. And it is quite annoying that it can't diagnose exactly where can be a problem when you switch file formats.
if i understood some blogs right, the ms office formats are basically memory dumps of whatever the program is up to at any one moment. And the oldest parts of the formats can be traced back to competitive programs from the 80's (embrace, extend, extinguish frozen in time, as most will not know of the programs "supported", let alone used them).

if one study microsoft products, one will see that the support for third party formats of any kind drops like a rock ones said ms product hits a dominant market share...

that is why i really hope we will see a open format on external storage thats foture proof, and that microsoft will need to support...
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