Promoting ODF (OpenDocument Format),Its official. Those prevalent Blackberry devices will support ODF natively mid 2009, as announced by RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie, during IBM's Lotusphere conference:
RIM's BlackBerry smartphone users can now access IBM's Lotus Symphony word
processing documents, with the eventual capability to use presentations and
spreadsheets from Symphony, built on the Open Document Format, as an
alternative to Microsoft Office. Lotus Symphony document viewing will be
available in the second quarter of this year.
This is significant as many enterprises have had to hold back on ODF deployments due to key infrastructure compatibilities, and Blackberries happen to be one of them. It is wonderful to see the market forces from end users to governments requesting ODF support, and now we are seeing the fruits of this demand; all major vendors will support ODF.
Even Microsoft's Windows Vista 7 have enhanced their built in rich text editor, Wordpad, to natively support ODF (screenshot from Han).
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Notably in Wordpad, usage of which is limited. The real test is if they'll support it in the MS Office suite of products, as that's the one with the larger installed and user base.
On this, I hope Microsoft keeps to their word and allows native reading/writing of ODF documents, even if they have to support OpenXML as the default format.
Posted by: Dinesh Nair | Tuesday, 03 February 2009 at 04:25 PM
cool man!@ thanks for sharing! blackberries is best phone ever
Posted by: Stanley | Monday, 07 September 2009 at 04:06 AM
wow this is a great news.... then, I can write my essay and custom papers using my Blackberry...
Posted by: blair | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 03:56 PM