{"id":5273,"date":"2014-12-25T09:11:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T09:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2014-12-25T09:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T09:21:04","slug":"no-immediate-odf-support-for-mobile-ms-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5273","title":{"rendered":"No immediate ODF support for mobile MS Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/11\/ODF_textdocument_48x48.png\" alt=\"ODF file icon\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-689\" \/>The Register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/12\/24\/microsoft_promises_an_open_plan_mobile_office_so_who_sits_near_the_window\/\">reported<\/a> yesterday on developments for MS Office on mobile devices (iOS, Android and Windows phones and tablets).<\/p>\n<p>Even though MS is reported to be going cross-platform &#8220;rather aggressively&#8221; in the words of Technical Product Manager Kaberi Chowdhury, there appears to be no corresponding effort to embrace open standards for mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>As El Reg states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mobile apps work well with Microsoft\u2019s latest Office formats, such as docx and xlsx, but what about Open Document (ODF), as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4569\">mandated by the UK government<\/a> for use wherever possible?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will bring support for ODF files to the iOS apps in a future update. Similarly, with the Android apps, we will deliver support in a future update following general availability. For the touch-optimized Office apps we\u2019re delivering with Windows 10, we will have more to share soon,&#8221; said Chowdury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hardly surprising Microsoft&#8217;s approach reeks of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vendor_lock-in\">vendor lock-in<\/a>. Office is after all its biggest cash cow after its insecure operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register reported yesterday on developments for MS Office on mobile devices (iOS, Android and Windows phones and tablets). Even though MS is reported to be going cross-platform &#8220;rather aggressively&#8221; in the words of Technical Product Manager Kaberi Chowdhury, there appears to be no corresponding effort to embrace open standards for mobile devices. As El [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9],"tags":[24,11,23],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-odf","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}