On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
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time that features and functions listed in the MS ads and brochures failed
to work or even exist in the shipped version of the product. MS has a long
track record of leveraging vaporware to disadvantage competitors. It would
be no surprise if one of the contributing factors[1] was the inability for
MS Office to support non-MS based XML schemas.
The last reason is that they basically dont want to support it but they are
choosing other words that wont make them look as if they dont want to.
It's not hard to see that MS is one of the members on the technical
committee to develop the OASIS Open Document Format for Office
Applications (OpenDocument), but is the only one to not support it.
What does look really bad is that the claim that MS Office can handle a
variety of XML schemas looks false. The failure of MS to support ODF is
either A) that these claims are false, MS cannot in fact support arbitrary
XML schemas, or B) that MS is actively disabling just ODF. There's no way
for MS to look good, but maybe that's not important.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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