Re: [xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Office 1.0 Milestone 1 Released!
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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Florin Ciubotaru Sent: 03 March 2009 12:49 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Office 1.0 Milestone 1 Released! The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Office 1.0 Milestone 1. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download#HXWikiOffice ! XWiki Office is a XWiki.org project that provides integration between Microsoft Office and XWiki servers. Here is a list of features: - Create wiki pages using Word - Edit existing pages in Word - Download and edit attachments - Attach files to the wiki - Browse the wiki using the Wiki Explorer For more information about XOffice go at: - http://xoffice.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ For details about this release see the Release Notes at: - http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXOffice10M1 Thanks -The XWiki dev team _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Thales UK Ltd (Wells) DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. We may monitor all e-mail communications through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on sender's telephone number above and delete it and all copies from your system. We accept no responsibility for changes to any e-mail which occur after it has been sent. Attachments to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your system. We therefore recommend you virus-check all attachments before opening. Thales UK Ltd. Registered Office: 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2NX Registered in England No. 868273
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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
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