.docx .xlsx .pptx etc...

[Kernel Sanders]

Will any of these new formats survive?

For me, the universal standard that I encounter day by day is the original .doc .xls .ppt etc... and OOo supports these pretty much naively, along with the widely used Office 2000-2003.

[fatality_uk]

Will any of these new formats survive?

For me, the universal standard that I encounter day by day is the original .doc .xls .ppt etc... and OOo supports these pretty much naively, along with the widely used Office 2000-2003.

Why did Microsoft offer a ISO new lock in format? I think the answer is contained within your post. They will survive because Microsoft will want them to work and as such, they will

[Joeb454]

Of course they will survive, Microsoft has managed to get it approved as an International standard, and I think the next few versions of Office will clearly use this "standard" as default. So as more and more people upgrade due to old versions, it will become more dominant.

Though I here that OOo 3.0 will support reading and writing the new Office file formats :)

[retrow]

The beta version of OOo 3.0 still needs the converter to read .***x formats. Perhaps the converter will be integrated into the main package by the time of final release.

[Mr A Mouse]

At least this time they used a different file extension. I cannot tell you how frustrating it was back when I ran Office 97 and I tried to open an Office 2000 file.

[bouta]

when will OOo be released..any1?

[retrow]

Version 3.0 is scheduled for September.

http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html

[thisllub]

Gnumeric reads xlsx.

At least they are published formats.

It doesn't really matter what software vendors do if they publish their document formats.

[Joeb454]

I should note that OOo 2.4 reads the files pretty well without a converter, you have to force it to open them though ;)

I've opened both .docx files and .xlsx files. I just saved them in either the default OOo format, or the "old" office format :) Worked fine