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

[Dan Shafer]

Yes, but by all accounts, it will be a special, proprietary XML that  
they won't open. And they've publicly stated that they will NOT  
support OpenFormat, which is an XML standard format.

Dan

On Oct 11, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Scott Kane wrote:

>
>
>> 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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