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Tim Bray on Microsoft Office

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-things-where-you-least-expect-them dept.

jgeelan writes "The co-inventor of XML, Tim Bray, has been talking about the newly XML-enabled version of Microsoft Office, code-named 'Office 11' and tells XML-Journal that 'when the huge universe of MS Office documents becomes available for processing by any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence, all sorts of wonderful new things can be invented that you and I can't imagine.'"

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  1. *when* ? by Monty+Worm · · Score: 4, Funny
    when the huge universe of MS Office documents becomes available for processing by any programmer

    I beg you pardon? Smelly programmers can keep their hands off my documents. If I wanted you to have them, I'd have emailed them to you as plaintext. I wasn't aware the the Office license meant my documents were common property....

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  2. imagination by selderrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...all sorts of wonderful new things can be invented that you and I can't imagine...

    When will MS ever learn that we don't WANT to imagine how wonderfull the MS Office Universe is ?

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    When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
  3. The new Word XML document format: by Bazman · · Score: 5, Funny


    <uueWord2kDocument>
    M"@D)("!'3E4 @3$E"4D%262!'14Y%4D%,(%!50DQ)0R!,24-%3 E-%"@D)("`@
    M("`@(%9E7)I9VAT("A#*2`Q.3DQ
    M($9R96 4@4V]F='=A6]N92!I2!A;F0@9&ES=')I8G5T
    M92!V97)B871 I;2!C;W!I97,*(&]F('1H:7,@;&EC96YS92!D; V-U;65N="P@
    </uueWord2kDocument>

  4. Re:What will be the default save format? by Rinikusu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop right there.
    If you continue with that line of reasoning, someone's gonna demand that it be called SGML/XML.

    Grr.

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  5. Re:Yay Evil Monopoly Of Doom! by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't beleive any of this crap is goingto happen from MS. Not for a New York second.

    Dark-masked B.Gates approaching you:
    "I find your lack of faith....disturbing."

  6. what a cool codename by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    code-named 'Office 11'

    awesome. Apparently the next version of the linux kernel is code named 2.6! Wow!

  7. Nice, but redundant statement by cwernli · · Score: 4, Funny

    any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence

    and I thought intelligence was a prerequisite to be able to handle perl ? :)