Office 2003 and XML

zachlipton writes "Internet World is reporting that initial reports from Office 2003 beta testers don't look good for those hoping to share documents with non-MS systems using the XML file format. Gary Edwards, the OpenOffice.org representative for the OASIS XML file-format group is quoted as saying "although it's still early in the review process, it does look as though XP XML has been so seriously crippled as to be useless to anyone but the big content management and collaboration system providers." Apparently, all formatting and presentation information is removed from the XML. Furthermore, Office's new collaboration featres will only work with users who are also running Office 2003 (requiring Windows 2000 or 2003) that are connecting over XP servers." So Microsoft will continue its efforts to lock-in users with proprietary formats, and hopefully the rest of the world will produce an XML standard document format without them.

Comments

XP Server?

[nurb432]

When did this come out?

All of this is only for the users of latest Microsoft products... Does any of this suprise anyone? If so, they have their head in the sand.

Microsoft wasn't built by playing nice with others, why would they start now?

XP Servers

[samrolken]

"...connecting over XP servers..."

I must have missed the release of Windows XP Server.

Re: Thats the Declaration of Independence.

[benzapp]

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.-- Ben Franklin

The Constitution of the United States does not contain any reference to the right to pursue happiness. The phrase is found in the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, as found at the National Archive

I highly doubt Benjamin Franklin would have made this mistake, since he was one of the few instrumental in the creation of both documents.

Re:At some point.....

[zbuffered]

If you are a crap company however and anything would cause your clients to walk out on you then yes you have to get down on your knees and open wide and pray that someone has made sure your charging enough to be able to do this cause if you increase your prices or stop brown-nosing their gone.

Punctuation: use more of it.
People will take you more seriously if you do.