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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. What?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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

    What?! I for one thing can imagine a Beowulf cluster.

  2. Re:Historical turningpoint? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    WFT are you talking about? THe BIOS is PC's had to be reverse engineered and IBM took those who did it to court. IBM did not give this info out. They wanted to be the only people who sold PCs.

  3. Re:Yay Evil Monopoly Of Doom! by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Troll

    They'll simply add "features" to XML, enabling a Microsoft extension of the standard. The new MSXML will by copyrighted by Microsoft.

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  4. Whats wrong with html/css2 ? by captainclever · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whats wrong with HTML and CSS2 for all your word processing? Then its totally cross platform and web-ready...

    just a thought.
    RJ

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  5. Re:HTML from Word by guybarr · · Score: 1, Troll


    But look at many of the comments in this forum - it seems MS has even managed to persuade many Slashdotters that they are going to use open formats. Poor fools.

    or hired voices ?

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  6. umm by taernim · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can anyone explain to me what him being the "co-founder of XML" has to do with Office 11? That seems like just tossing names out...

    I.E. "Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster, loves ___ (insert tech area here) -- yet we won't give any explanation how this is relevant"

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  7. Re:Yay Evil Monopoly Of Doom! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, no way in other platfroms to access SQL Server, not at all. Oh.. wait, ODBC, JDBC, Sybase Clients (I think some of them might still
    work) so perhpaps there is.