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National Archive File Format Time Bomb

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cleaning-up-your-own-messes dept.

geordie_loz writes "The BBC is reporting that the UK National Archive is warning of old formats being a 'ticking time-bomb' where data is going to be lost because of incompatibility in newer versions of software, and software not existing at all. More surprisingly, Microsoft has offered a solution via the OOXML format."

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