This, fresh from from Office Watch: “Office 2007 compatibility pack disappoints”.Update 11/15: Some readers have written with more information. This may be an issue between the pre-1.5-final-draft version of OOXML and the final RTM Compatibility … [Continue reading] about Genesis 11:5-9
Two simple questions
Some pertinent quotes from Microsoft's Brian Jones, thematic quotes made over a sustained period of time:“The Open XML formats were designed to be 100% backward compatible with the existing set of Office binary formats, and that was really a goal … [Continue reading] about Two simple questions
Unlocking the Wordhord
I have a backlog of shorter items that I've accumulated in recent weeks that I'd like to share with you. I hope you find something here interesting. First, congratulations to OpenOffice.org and KOffice, who both recently announced new releases. In … [Continue reading] about Unlocking the Wordhord
Ass-backwards Compatibility
I refer you to Ben Langhinrichs at Genii Software with his post on “Self deprecating standards”.After you've read that, then I hope you'll return back here for some additional thoughts.From what Ben writes, it seems that one source of OOXML's length … [Continue reading] about Ass-backwards Compatibility
The Chernobyl Design Pattern
In 1994, the world learned that the Intel Pentium chip had a bug. In certain cases it gave the wrong answer when calculating floating-point division. These cases were rare, only 1 in 9 billion divisions, and typically only resulted in errors past … [Continue reading] about The Chernobyl Design Pattern