I can open any MS Word document with any computer out of the box. Without installing _any_ crap or having account at Gevil (and uploading anything). On OSX Textedit, on Windows Wordpad, and so on. On iOS any MS doc as attachment. In that way Microsoft Standard is different, i can view the docs without doing nothing, only "standard" ODF documents i can not view on standard computer.
While word pad did add support for docx files in Windows 7, I wonder how good a viewer it is for viewing complex documents that have complex formatting applied. I do not know but I suspect that the results may be less than stellar. I suspect the same is true for the other programs as well.
I know MS published docx as an open spec but in my experience I find that only MS programs are able to maintain document fidelity in viewing the documents. When you use other viewers there is almost always something that looks a little off.
Does anyone know why you don't have same viewing results for complex docx documents when viewed under different viewers ?
I think you misunderstood his double negative - it translates to 'all computers can open AU Gov documents out of the box now?' and I think you are agreeing with him that this is true.
