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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. 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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