Heise on Sun’s ODF Plugin
Sun recently released a plugin that lets Microsoft Office users read and write the industry-standard ODF file format, which I covered last week.
The suggested Sun download link requires you to register before you can get the plugin, which is annoying. Fortunately, Heise provides their own download mirror of the ODF Plugin (click “Zur Download-Seite” when you get there), as well as a brief, and partially inaccurate, article describing it.
(Here’s Heise’s incomprehensible sentence which seems to confuse “ODF” with “OpenOffice,” a common, but obvious, error: “The extension allows users of MS Office to read and create text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the free OpenOffice suite and its commercial version called StarOffice.”)
Here is how I would rewrite that sentence: “The extension allows users of MS Office to read and create text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the industry-standard OpenDocument Format, widely known through its use by the free OpenOffice suite and its commercial version called StarOffice.”