Hi Richard,
goldring, richard wrote:
Hi,
This looks good. Unfortunately a lot of companies such as mine use older
versions of Word such as Word 2000 (because of the cost of upgrading).
Would older versions of Word be supported in future? Or even Open Office
writer?
Regards,
Richard
There are no current plans of implementing XOffice for another version
of Microsoft Office. Yet, we can adapt the solution relatively easy only
to Office 2003, if this is going to be asked by the
XWiki.org community.
Unfortunately Microsoft discontinued most extensibility technologies for
versions of office prior to 2003, because those were created in early
'90s and didn't fit the current market any more. The old technologies
that are still supported just aren't powerful enough and the support for
them will stop in the near future.
We choose VSTO as the technology to develop XOffice on top of, at the
cost of losing users that have older versions of Office, because it is
the only technology that is guaranteed to be in the next versions of
Office. Our tech roadmap mainly focuses on Office 2007 and the upcoming
Office 14.
Regarding Open Office, I see a very high probability of having a similar
solution for it, if XOffice will match the impact we expect it to have,
or the community will ask for Open Office integration.
Thanks,
Florin Ciubotaru