Microsoft will not respond to your complaints in this forum. They may not
even see them.

I don't speak for Microsoft, but I can see no good business reason why
Microsoft would contemplate doing this. You can impose whatever software you
want on your employees while you are paying their wages, but you are going
to have difficulty communicating with your customers and suppliers if you
follow this route and there are training implications to consider.

For those occasions when you do have to deal with such documents, two
possibilities have already been offered. Whether you adopt either one
depends on how badly you want to read those documents.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Ryan wrote:
"Timothy L" wrote:

Anyway...
A plug-in (add-in) that will allow users of Microsoft Office to open
files in the OpenDocument format is being developed by a third party
(NOT Microsoft) as we speak. It is called "OpenOpenOffice". More
information can be found he
http://www.phase-n.com/openopenoffice/

I am not interested in this complex and work-in-progress plugin - I
don't see why MS can't get off their a** and add the support. I know
it can't be hard - and for the money I have paid (over $1000 in MS
Office 2003), I would hope some of that goes to adding support. This
is the reason why I am converting all employee's to OOo - because MS
don't give a crap about their customers, and don't listen.