Ha ha. Seriously. Why even export to this format in the first place? If you really want to port a document from Word, why not just open it in OpenOffice or WordPerfect and resave it? In fact, both OpenOffice and WordPerfect support old *.doc formats, so they should already be equipped to deal with old legacy Word format issues anyway, right? And like you said, push comes to shove, scan/OCR and you're all done!
I understand that these tags will be needed when converting legacy documents, but how many people are going meet all the following conditions to even be effected by this:
A) Desire to convert an old Word 5/95/WordPerfect 6 document to OOXML. B) Have the original document actually use one of the undocumented legacy features C) After converting the file actually experience a problem in formatting
First of all, the number of people who fall into category A is going to be small to begin with, same with category B. Although Microsoft is not providing the documentation like they should be, category C would be up to Corel, Sun, and other producers of future OOXML compatible word processors to implement. They're going to implement OOXML, so they're going to be encountering these issues as they program anyway. I trust they can figure out a way to display "full-width East Asian characters" and other such issues that are not fully documented in the standard.
Well the good news is that the 65nm processors will not cost more than their siblings. For example, the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in both 90nm and 65nm will sell for $301 in quantities of 1000.
While pagerank won't determine your position in the SERPS, it is a good indication of the quality of backlinks that point to your site. In addition to that, sites that have a good PR have the ability to sell links to other webmasters who are trying to increase their page rank. Useless for SEO, yes. Useless in general, hell no.
Haven't they said that about each version. Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Server 2003 etc. It's a PR move directed towards the masses. Obviously they have a public image problem when security exploits in Windows makes CNN every month or less. Statements such as this shouldn't be directed towards the IT crowd, because we know better. I run FreeBSD and know how to exploit each major version of Windows, and I'm sure most of you do too.
The bottom line is that they've focused on security a lot for Vista, so of course they're going to be blowing their own horn in an effort to alleviate their PR problems, and to illustrate a reason why the general consumer even needs Vista in the first place.
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Ha ha. Seriously. Why even export to this format in the first place? If you really want to port a document from Word, why not just open it in OpenOffice or WordPerfect and resave it? In fact, both OpenOffice and WordPerfect support old *.doc formats, so they should already be equipped to deal with old legacy Word format issues anyway, right? And like you said, push comes to shove, scan/OCR and you're all done!
A) Desire to convert an old Word 5/95/WordPerfect 6 document to OOXML.
B) Have the original document actually use one of the undocumented legacy features
C) After converting the file actually experience a problem in formatting
First of all, the number of people who fall into category A is going to be small to begin with, same with category B. Although Microsoft is not providing the documentation like they should be, category C would be up to Corel, Sun, and other producers of future OOXML compatible word processors to implement. They're going to implement OOXML, so they're going to be encountering these issues as they program anyway. I trust they can figure out a way to display "full-width East Asian characters" and other such issues that are not fully documented in the standard.
Well the good news is that the 65nm processors will not cost more than their siblings. For example, the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in both 90nm and 65nm will sell for $301 in quantities of 1000.
While pagerank won't determine your position in the SERPS, it is a good indication of the quality of backlinks that point to your site. In addition to that, sites that have a good PR have the ability to sell links to other webmasters who are trying to increase their page rank. Useless for SEO, yes. Useless in general, hell no.
I personally think it's great that Vista Beta 2 won't even install on Virtual PC 2004 yet it runs great in VMWare's Server Beta 1.
Haven't they said that about each version. Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Server 2003 etc. It's a PR move directed towards the masses. Obviously they have a public image problem when security exploits in Windows makes CNN every month or less. Statements such as this shouldn't be directed towards the IT crowd, because we know better. I run FreeBSD and know how to exploit each major version of Windows, and I'm sure most of you do too. The bottom line is that they've focused on security a lot for Vista, so of course they're going to be blowing their own horn in an effort to alleviate their PR problems, and to illustrate a reason why the general consumer even needs Vista in the first place.