Re: Have some suggestions about Word?

[Janet Swisher <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>]

The Infomation Week article implies that the dispute is over the use of
custom XML, not the .docx format per se. I doubt OpenOffice.org provides the
same kind of document automation hooks that Word does.

--Janet


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Sarah Stegall <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net> wrote:

> Interesting. As one commentator noted, "OpenOffice.org can open .docx
> documents. Will there be a lawsuit about that?" I am the last person to
> defend Microsoft, but he has a point.
>
> Sarah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:12 AM
> To: Sarah Stegall; TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Have some suggestions about Word?
>
> They may have to, at least for a while. :)
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.
> jhtml?articleID=219200383<http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.%0Ajhtml?articleID=219200383>
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>


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