Friday, June 03, 2005

Office 12: Why Microsoft passed on OpenDocument XML format

Chris Jablonski -- "We could have used a format from others and shoehorned in functionality, but our design needs to be different because we have 400 million legacy users. Moving 400 million users to XML is a complex problem" -Jean Paoli, Microsoft XML architect (from BetaNews)While it's good news that Microsoft is defaulting to an open XML format [...]

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