2024-10-11, 17:20–17:40 (Europe/Luxembourg), Auditorium
Come hear about a tool that can help you to migrate Windows native apps that require Microsoft Office and use OLE integration to embed and re-use Word or Excel. See how we can use this to trace what APIs are used by a windows application, and then to transparently replace these.
Hear about the limitations and opportunities for improvement here, as well as why this is does not ship by default in LibreOffice currently.
Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. He is the CEO of Collabora Productivity, overseeing an extremely talented team developing Collabora Online, and supporting our customers and
partners alongside the community. He has served as a Director of the The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior to Collabora he gained a wide experience as a Novell/SUSE Distinguished Engineer working on various pieces of Free Software infrastructure across the Linux stack to from the base-system, boot-time, MeeGo, GNOME, CORBA, Nautilus, Evolution and Open Source accessibility, among others.