● 06.19.08

●● Microsoft Office Says ODF Files Are Corrupt

Posted in Formats, FUD, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 10:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Shades of DR-DOS FUD tactics

One day ago we wrote about ways in which Microsoft seems to be discouraging the use of ODF. It’s a must-read for background. We promised some screenshots and we finally have them thanks to Eruaran. Here is the portion of the IRC discussion which explains what you see at the bottom.

The first one is what comes up if you try to open an .odt in MS Word 2007 (after I clicked ‘details’) Thanks! no problem so, you click ok and you get the second one And the third…? so, you click ‘yes’ to ‘recover the contents’ of this document and you get the third third shows after I clicked ‘details’ click ‘ok’ and thats it “the file is corrupt,” eh? The last time I checked it’s Microsoft that corrupted Swedish folks for OOXML. try to open the same document back in OOo or KOffice and its perfect

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“Microsoft Office cannot open this file because some parts are missing or invalid” ~translation~ “Microsoft Office could open this file but wont because some parts are missing (you know, those binary blobs that keep you dependant upon us), so we’ve decided your choice of file formats is invalid”.

●●● Dialogue 1:

●●● Dialogue 2: (click to enlarge)

●●● Dialogue 3:

Thoughts? █

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