Google Adds Microsoft Word, Excel Editing To Latest Chrome OS Build 72
An anonymous reader writes "Google has added native Microsoft Office file editing to the dev channel for Chrome OS. The addition means Chrome OS users on the latest build of the company's browser-based operating system can now experiment with editing Microsoft Word and Excel files. The dev channel for Chrome OS is updated once or twice weekly. Since the feature has made it in there, it's likely to show up in the beta channel, and then eventually the stable channel. Today's news that Google is already working on editing, and not just viewing, Microsoft Office documents in Chrome OS is very interesting because of the potential. Maybe by the end of year, the functionality will make it into the Chrome browser, too."
Even better: Change MS Office's default format (Score:4, Interesting)
If I were Google, I'd bankroll efforts to develop software that would change MS office's default file formats to "something sensible", in addition to championing efforts to have this capability enabled in every office installation. That would surely produce interesting responses.
Re: Even better: Change MS Office's default format (Score:0, Interesting)
If I were Google, I'd bankroll efforts to develop software that would change MS office's default file formats to "something sensible", in addition to championing efforts to have this capability enabled in every office installation. That would surely produce interesting responses.
What is more sensible than the Open XML standard (ISO/IEC 29500)? If you still are under the impression Microsoft's implementation is lacking you are not up to date. Office 2013 use it as the default format and fully confirms to the standard, even the optional "strict" profile.