[GLLUG] REPLY BY 9am Tuesday 16th - Evidence required of shortcomings with Microsoft's implementation of ODF

[Peter Cannon]

On 15/12/14 16:16, Alain Williams wrote:
> This is wanted to present to the Home Office, seedetails below.
> 
> Please reply directly to Stuart, CCed [working for Open Source Consortium].
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Stuart J Mackintosh <sjm at opusvl.com> -----
> 
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:54:21 +0000
> From: Stuart J Mackintosh <sjm at opusvl.com>
> To: osc-members at opensourceconsortium.org
> Subject: [OSC-Members] REPLY BY 9am Tuesday 16th - Evidence required of shortcomings with Microsoft's implementation of ODF
> 
> I have had a short conversation with Tariq Rashid (Home Office) today,
> he has asked if we can provide any points of reference to show that
> the Microsoft implementation of ODF is not complete, therefore will
> hinder the adherence to the ODF commitments.
> 
> There have been many anecdotes around the shortcomings of editing and
> indexing, metadata not being preserved and significant areas of
> functionality missing, for example Change Tracking.
> 
> To assist Tariq, it would be really useful to be able to provide
> references that support these shortcomings.
> 
> I have sent him a link to http://officeshots.org/ as the round-trip
> ODF function will show what gets pulled out.
> 
> Can you send over any links to tools, discussions and conclusions that
> relate to any shortcomings with the MS implementation of ODF, and what
> the impacts may be.
> 
> For this request, I would need any responses by 09:00 GMT tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart.
> 

Interesting? Matt you work for the Home Office. I'm surprised you haven't appraised this Tariq character?

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