Gosh I should learn to proof read my comments before submitting them.
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Notice there’s an online office application from some web giant that I do not want to mention, and it supports ODF already. Regardless of any format war, availability of ODF is a competitive advantage, there are already cases in which ODF is required by people, and a couple of European governments that have declared already they will stick to ODF for official matters and avoid MS’ formats.

Until ODF is supported, however, I agree with Jack that ThinkFree is basically useless to me in most of my usage scenarios. I am looking forward to using your implementation, so don’t give up.

The majority of ODF users use OpenOffice.org or one of it’s spin-offs (StarOffice, Lotus Notes) so go for round-trip compatibility with OOo. As for unsupported features, simply implement them. ODF is a whole lot cleaner, simpler and more consistent than OOXML is. Implementing it should be a breeze.

I hear that the KDE is working on a stand-alone open source ODF parser. Perhaps you could use that.

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Mike Benton said,

April 8, 2008 @ 11:16 am · Edit

Hi,

How can we access the mobile version of Thinkfree? What devices does it support and which ones are planned in the near future? I’m hoping you plan support for Windows Mobile Standard and Professional as we do a lot of document editing and there isn’t a good solid mobile sync for documents available.

Thanks for Thinkfree!

Hi Mike,

We plan to roll out mobile edition of ThinkFree office which would require J2SE 1.5 or higher. We also plan to add mobile access to our online service so that you could access (read/share) your documents anywhere, anytime. However, editing document would require Java Runtime which is not available for Windows Mobile.

Thanks,
Taeyoung

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April 9, 2008 @ 5:45 pm · Edit

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I don’t think we would accept such a deal from Microsoft. ; )

Uwe said,

April 9, 2008 @ 10:27 am · Edit

Thinkfree sucks!

After your Revolutionary change and think on April 7th, 2008 I lost my account and all my files !!!!!

Uwe, you seem to have forgot your password. Without successful 1st sign-in within ThinkFree Manager, you won’t be able to see documents. ThinkFree Manager will sync your online storage with your desktop. It will redownload all of your documents. And if you’ve used ThinkFree Premium client, your previous copies of documents should be kept in your document directory.

Please contact our support team (support@thinkfree.com) if you still have problems.

Basically, every feature of ThinkFree Office was designed for the interoperability with Microsoft Office and we use Microsoft Office formats as the default format of ThinkFree Office. ThinkFree Office reads & writes OOXML-format documents and it can convert old binary formats into OOXML. It was easier for us to get compatibility with OOMXML with the help from the nature of the compatibility we’ve improved over the last 10 years.

On the other hand, in order to get interoperability with ODF, we need to learn more on the real usages. We are not quite sure whether we should provide round-trip compatibility which is our basic policy for interoperability. What if ThinkFree Office opens an ODF that includes unsupported features or property which directly affects to rendering the document layout/style? What if a user saves the original ODF document using ThinkFree office? Do you need one-way interoperability? We would need some more time as we’ve just reached our 1st milestone for XML-based interoperability. The good news is that it would be easier for us to get ODF interoperability once we complete the development for OOXML support. And it doesn’t mean we decided to drop support for ODF.

FYI, we don’t support the late breaking features of Microsoft Office 2007 at the moment.

We appreciate your valuable comments.

Thanks,
Taeyoung

So please support ODF and help us Thinkfree to be our choice.
Thank you!