Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué,

voilà qui semble être la devise de Microsoft.

Voici des petites infos sur la compatibilité de NOtes 8 avec Office
2007.

/The new Office 2007 "Open XML" format spec is over 6,000 pages
long , and it will be a challenge for anyone other than Microsoft
to implement it fully and correctly./

/Will Notes 8 be able to deal with Office 2007 Open Office XML files?
No. Can they deal with files creating in Office 2007 set to the old
formats? Yes. Very few tools, including the viewers that Notes use,
have updated to OOXML. And most companies I know that are rolling out
Office 2007 (those that arent ripping it out and going back) are
setting the default formats to be the old ones. That will change as
the converters get pushed back into Office 2003 and Office XP by
default in the next service pack./

/The new file format for Office is an interesting thing. As a
developer, the ability to have raw access to the files is nice. The
implementation is, well, better than ODF. There is more features in
the Microsoft version. The problem is that for the end user, there is
no reason to use the new format yet./

Vous pourriez même ne plus avoir de contrôle sur vos macros:

WE HAVE PROPRIETARY EXTENSIONS TO MICROSOFT OFFICE OPEN XML ALREADY

/This has some interesting consequences. It is effectively a
container for source code that not only requires Office to run it,
but requires Office to even read it. So you could have your
intellectual property in the form of extensive macros that you have
written, and if Microsoft one day decides that your copy of Office is
not ?genuine? you could effectively be locked out of your own source
code./

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1343

INFOWORLD REALITY CHECK: ODF VS. OPENXML


http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/infoworld-reality-check-odf-vs.-openxml-

Débat qui n'a pas finit de faire jaser, même au Canada.


https://forums.scc.ca/forums/scc/dispatch.cgi/public/docProfile/100009/d20070501143554/No/t100009.htm

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is seeking comments on a
proposal to adopt Office Open XML (Open XML) as an international open
standard.
The work to standardize Open XML has been carried out by Ecma
International as part of an open, cross-industry collaboration via
Technical Committee 45 (Ecma TC45). On December 7, 2006, the Ecma General Assembly
approved both adopting Office Open XML as an Ecma standard (ECMA-376) and submitting it for international approval under the fast-track process of the Joint
Technical Committee of the International Organization for
Standardization and the Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC JTC 1). SCC is responsible for responding to the ISO/IEC/JTC 1 ballot
regarding the international approval of the Ecma 376 standard.