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Gates Embraces Web Service Interoperability

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lucy-won't-pull-the-football-away-this-time dept.

djh101010 writes "In a CNN article which looks more like something out of The Onion, Bill Gates expresses his interest in participating in interoperability with rival technologies, through common standards. Specifically mentioned are IBM's WebSphere, and Linux. 'We're being as inclusive as we can,' Gates said of Microsoft's role in the cross-platform project. 'This is a fabric for someone to do e-commerce that's independent of the operating systems that are out there.'

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  1. Re:XML by molarmass192 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The namespace schemas are proprietary and redistribution is not permitted. No namespace schema, no way to make sense of what's in the XML.

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  2. Exactly by Carnage4Life · · Score: 5, Informative
    We all know how Gates "embraced" XML for Office 11...
    You mean how Microsoft shipped XML vocabularies compliant to the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation with schemas for the XML formats used by Word and Excel, stylesheets to convert WordML to HTML, and Office products like InfoPath that use over a dozen XML and Web standards in a compliant manner. Yeah, it is really cool how Microsoft embraced the XML family of technologies.

    Disclaimer: I work on the XML team at Microsoft but not directly with Microsoft Office.