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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 07:59 PM EDT |
Actually, WordPerfect files ARE standard - a long established standard.
The current WordPerfect file format was established in 1994 with WP6, and was
widely published so anybody could be compatible.
They designed it so well, that if I create a file with my latest version
(something like v12), somebody who still has v6 (and I do, it just won't run on
XP or later) can read/edit the file no problem!
MS can't even manage *backward* compatibility over that time span, let alone
forward! :-)
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 08:38 PM EDT |
"Word" is a software application. It supports many formats.
If someone tells me to use a "Word" format, then I can happily use
.odt. Now that ODF is supported in Word, it is in fact a "Word
format."
(I'm not trying to be pedantic. But I think it is important to break people of
the notion that "Word" format automatically means MOOXML or its
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 10:35 PM EDT |
aka .docx or Open Office XML, and which LibreOffice can read, manipulate and
write surprisingly well, modulo some of the terribly obscure compatibility
features like aFChunk?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 08:12 AM EDT |
The popularity or prevalence of WordPerfect doesn't matter in such an instance;
only that it is good at doing what it does, which for the Legal profession, is
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 01:59 PM EDT |
| "Between 2005 and 2008, an unparalleled standards war was waged between
Microsoft, on the one hand, and IBM, Google, Oracle and additional companies on
the other. At the heart of the battle were two document formats, one called ODF,
developed by OASIS, a standards development consortium, and Open XML, a
specification developed by Microsoft. Both were submitted to, and adopted by,
global standards groups ISO/IEC. But then Microsoft never fully adopted its own
standard. Instead, it implemented what it called 'Transitional Open XML,' which
was better adapted for use in connection with documents created using older
versions of Office. Yesterday, Microsoft announced in a blog entry that it will
finally make it possible for Office users to open, edit and save documents in
the format that ISO/IEC approved."
Slashdot [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- And - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 03:31 PM EDT
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