Does MS Office SP2 With ODF Support Really Work? Test Results Point to No. – Updated

“I thought most of the problems, and there were others, might be
my fault though, because I’ve never used Office 2007 before, since
I don’t own it, and I found it very confusing. Because I don’t own
Office 2007, and I had limited access time to test on someone
else’s, I looked around to see if anyone else was reporting results
in the new SP2. I asked Groklaw members if they had tried it out
yet and how it worked for them. A Groklaw member, Dobbo, did a test
working on a spreadsheet with a client, and his experience was also
a failure.

“It turns out Rob Weir also did some tests of spreadsheets, and
it’s not just me and Dobbo, and it’s not just Word documents. If
you are a government trying to decide if now’s the time to adopt
OOXML, because ODF is now allegedly supported, you probably want to
read his Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability. He compares
all the options, which he tested a couple of months ago,
OpenOffice, Google Docs, Clever Age, Sun’s plugin, KSpread and
Symphony, adds in the new Office 2007 SP2, and makes the
comparison. I think it’s fair to say that SP2 does worse than any
of the others, or at best they fail equally in some categories.
Clever Age actually did better on the tests than Office 2007 SP2.
Why? What could possibly explain that?

“Why would Microsoft be worse than the others? Here’s a bit on
that from Weir’s article:”

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