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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:04 PM EDT |
Support: getting someone to author a plugin for MS windows which uses
API's we [MS] can alter at any time and reasonably blame the third party for any
break on!
I think MS' primary problem is that some of us are just too
familiar with their historical/current actually implemented (as opposed to
spoken) behavior.
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| Authored by: hAckz0r on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 02:03 PM EDT |
| I'll believe this ODF "support" when I see it working correctly. I had a recent
experience with Microsoft support when using PowerPoint recently. I created a
presentation in LibreOffice ODF and then saved it as a ppt. It looked great.
After opening it using Office 2010 and resaving it I started working with it to
touch-it-up, to get the graphics right for a Microsoft PowerPoint driven
presentation. Every time I saved and reloaded it using PowerPoint 2010 it would
completely screw it up, until I finally had enough and created a new blank 2010
presentation and copied everything into it piece by piece, page by page. Since
the new document had no artefacts left over from another 3rd party software
application it finally decided to play nice.
After the fact I went back to
all the old revisions to see what might be going on. When saving the original
document from LibreOffice the document was saved with the internal application
artefact/tag of 'MS PowerPoint 97'. No matter how many times I loaded and edited
it with Office 2010, and resaved it as other versions, it always maintained that
tag, and thus screwed it up the next time it was loaded. After creating a "new
document" in 2010, it now had both 'PowerPoint Presentation' and 'Microsoft
Office PowerPoint' artefacts in it, and it worked just fine. Same corporate
template, same layout, same images and same text and graphics. Once PowerPoint
no longer saw these original artefacts it decided to start working correctly.
Now I'll have to test if creating a simple blank document is 2010 and editing it
in LibreOffice, then passing it back to 2010 exhibits the same behaviour or not.
Maybe its time to dust off IDA Pro to see if there is actual logic in PowerPoint
looking for 3rd party software artefacts which then modifies the handling of the
loaded presentation elements. I'm very suspicious.
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DRM - As a
"solution", it solves the wrong problem; As a "technology" its only 'logically'
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