On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:21, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnofftalk/ html/office12092002.asp
Office 97 released 1997. Office 99 released 1999. Office 11 released 2011??
No, Office 11 is the codename for Office 2003 (99 was 10 and 97 was 9)
The main drive for changing the format is to generate revenue. "My business contacts has the new Office, and I can't open their documents, I need to upgrade..."
Yes.
However, the change to XML can be the downfall for the never-ending upgrade-cycle forced upon Office-users, as small tools on the net will make back-conversions....
I think Microsoft is all but stupid and it plans to change their reveue stream entirely to subscription services, which are much more predictable. To do this, they have, at least, to impose .NET and teach XML to the world.
The second assault will come from OSS projects, which now will have a clean view into the formats, and should be able to reproduce Office documents much better than is currently the case. UNFORTUNATELY, I think (hope not) some tags will contain crucial data in some arcaic binary format, only useful to COM services in the OS.
Yep.
Did you know it was microsoft that wanted Processing Instruction back into the XML spec?
What would you do with this:
<o:document xmlns:o="urn:microsoft:office11:document">
<?COM 38493849348827384093082738402938409824302830948234324
230498923840298304823489328049802934828349280389420398409
170908935709324709238409720394809238402937509385029348072?>
</o:document>Long live the XML revolution.
Yeah, it will, unfortunately, never end :/
Welcome to Babel!
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