Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting

re: Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting

Gray Knowlton — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:46:24 GMT

Errata: Version 1 of the compatibility pack was 26.2MB, the current download size is 27.5MB, because of changes made in a security related update a few months ago.

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Jean-Christophe Helary — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:54:26 GMT

What the numbers say is that there are 20 million MS Office users who are not willing to upgrade to MS12 and hence are looking for alternate ways to deal with the new format.

They don't need the ODF Translator because if they want to do ODF they can get OpenOffice.org for free. Besides, if they need only OOXML occasional support, they can get Novell's OOo or NeoOffice for Mac.

So it is more a story of how many people is MS scaring away with the new format :)

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Doug Mahugh — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:59:04 GMT

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re: Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting

Gray Knowlton — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:05:03 GMT

I can see the FUD machine stopped by to pay a visit. Given that people are likely to download the Open XML compatiblity pack when the need it, I don't follow the "scaring away" part. I guess nobody is exempt...

re: Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting

Gareth Horton — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:02:25 GMT

Gray,

Could you let me know what the download numbers for the ODF plugin were, as I have tried the link since I read your post and it is still down - "Error fetching statistics data: Connection to statistics server timed out - Please retry shortly".

If you don't recall the exact count, ballpark would be fine.

Thanks

Gareth

re: Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting

Gray Knowlton — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:47:34 GMT

Hi Gareth,

I believe the current count is just under 400,000. This is for all things, including the source code. The actual Excel ODF Translator, for example, has been downloaded 32,000 times.

re: Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting

Gareth Horton — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:44:54 GMT

Thanks Gray, that's useful info.

Gareth

re: Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting

Jean-Christophe Helary — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:55:31 GMT

There is no FUD machine stopping by. Maybe you missed the smiley right after "scaring away"... ?

I know that is not exactly what you are talking about but I happen to using the OOXML converter for Office 2004 myself. And I downloaded it just in case a client feels the urge to send me something in the new format. Problem for Mac users, the converter outputs RTF and in a lot of cases that is far from sufficient. I had also installed the Office 2003 plugin and I've used it in my virtual XP machine, not to produce OOXML but to read them, and that was before MS eventually released the Mac thing.

20,000,000 downloads means that. 20,000,000 Office 2003 (and previous versions) who think they'll have somebody who'll send them a file in the new format and they need to deal with that without wanting to upgrade to Office 2007. And since we're at it, a lot of Mac users won't upgrade to 2008 because of the lack of VBA support, in case you want to know.

And as for the ODF format, well, if MS Office users get a file in that format, they don't need to have an MS Office converter because they can have the whole package for free. They just get OpenOffice.org, do what they need to do et voila. Which is what I am doing too.

There is not an ounce of FUD in my original post. What I wrote was a comment from the user side of the MS world, something you, a "product person" should pay attention to from times to times instead of dismissing as irrelevant.

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