[ale] News bulletin: The temperature seems to be cooling down in Hell!!!

[Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com (Dow Hurst)]

Maybe Microsoft is seeing the Openoffice/Linux threat and responding 
with an open file format will encourage people to stick with MS Office.  
I find that people like to stick with what they know, sometimes 
blindly.  Until I can show them a reason that they themselves can see as 
good, they prefer to stick with what they know.
Dow


Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) wrote:

>Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats	
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>Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 02, @09:41AM
>from the xml-is-my-friend dept.
>RzUpAnmsCwrds writes "According to an MSDN Channel 9 interview with an
>Office file-format developer, the next version of Microsoft Office
>(Office 12) will default to newly-developed XML file formats in Word,
>Excel, and PowerPoint. The new formats will apparently include XML files
>along with other files (images, etc) inside of a Zip file. Microsoft
>will also be providing extensive documentation of the new format to the
>public through MSDN. The developer likewise announced that Microsoft
>would be releasing updates for Office 2000, XP, and 2003 to read and
>write the new formats when the new version of Office is released. If
>this interview is correct, it could mean the beginning of the end of
>Microsoft's proprietary file formats." Coverage at Beta News,
>Information Week, and the Washington Post.
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