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Form Filling Through Office 12
Qa32 writes "For those chomping at the bit for more Office 12 details, Microsoft offered a tiny peek at the upcoming offering, or offerings, due next year. In what he termed the first public viewing of Office 12, Chris Caposella, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Information Worker Product Management Group, showed off a distributed forms capability that would enable customers to fill in and submit XML forms easily via a browser, without having to run Microsoft InfoPath on their PC."
Gee, I wonder where they got the idea from?
So is info path a new way for customer lock in to occur? The only thing I care about is when will someone write a plugin for OpenDocument that works in the various MS Offices.
"A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
Very funny, yes. I suppose I should start making these types of comments. Some slashbot might even mod me up.
collecting data for XML documents automatically
I have no idea what this means, and I suspect you don't, either. But since I'm supposed to be a "troll" for asking if you actually had any clue whatsoever what the article is talking about, I guess it doesn't really matter.
Well yes it could, but I doubt it would support anything other than IE, and IE7 (without some sort of plugin) at that. Right now I'd bet OpenOffice.Org 2.0 combined with Mozilla Firefox (1.1?) will beat MS to XForms support.