[OT] Microsoft Office's New UI Blazes Some New Trails for Us

Scott Kane scott at proherp.com
Wed Oct 12 02:52:54 EDT 2005


> IMO, the fact that MSWord saves files in their own proprietary markup 
> language *should* discourage anyone from ever using it. It'd sure be 
> cool if more adopted Massachusetts Open Doc policy. 
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122685,00.asp

Hi Chipp,

I'm on the beta team for Office 2006 (Office 12).
It would seem, at this point, that they are going
to be making heavy use of XML as the file formats
for their app's.  If this pans out then it would
be most favorable, IMHO.

Scott Kane





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