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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.
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?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
"If Saddam Hussein fails to comply and we fail to act or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop his program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of sanctions and ignore the commitments he's made? Well, he will conclude that the international community's lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on doing more to build an arsenal of devastating destruction. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow. The stakes could not be higher. Some way, someday, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal."
-President Bill Clinton in 1998
"...connecting over XP servers..."
I must have missed the release of Windows XP Server.
samrolken
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.
I don't read or respond to AC posts
I can't post an interview question (in the latest article) SO FIX IT!
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.
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