As from the "Specification and License Downloads" tab
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/downloads.mspx

we can read
"...
XML Paper Specification

The XML Paper Specification describes XPS documents. An XPS document is
a paginated representation of electronic paper that is described by an
XML-based language. XPS documents are open, cross-platform documents
that allow customers to effortlessly generate, share, print, and archive
paginated documents. Microsoft has published the XML Paper Specification
and made it available royalty-free.

XML Paper Specification v.1.0 (October 2006)
Community Promise for XPS
...
"

I post this for truth love, but the word "Promise" is not sounding like
music!!!

Have a Sunny day!

Carlo


Alan Lord ha scritto:
> bryan rasmussen wrote:
> <snip />
>>
>> What exactly is needed for specification aside from
>> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx ? As far as I can
>> recall the first release of XPS had all the specs. I agree it is a
>> shot at Adobe but that doesn't make it a bad thing.
>>
> 
> Not necessarily, but the ownership of this specification is Microsoft's
> and they have "previous form" (as we say in the UK)... This spec will
> almost certainly be patent encumbered, and, as they have done frequently
> in the past, will alter their shipped products features away from the
> public specification so that document owners' become locked-in to
> Microsoft's own software for continued access. And consequently they
> no-longer really "own" their data, MS do.
> 
> Al
> 
> 

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