On Sunday 17 October 2010 15:39, RA Brown wrote: > On Sat Oct 16 2010 18:30:30 GMT-0700 (PDT) Bob Long wrote: > > But haven't Microsoft released specifications for their binary file > > formats? > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313105.aspx > > Just how accurate, complete or useful that information is, I have no > > idea. > > As I am not a programming I do not know either. But with MS controlling > them there is not telling when those will change. As one of their > updates removed compatibility for older file formats. Which means > documents that the new programs will not open their on formats.
Microsofts binary formats are in theory deprecated. Thus the binary format specs are a fixed playing field which to all intents and purposes should never be updated again. There are very few hidden 'bits' in them though they do have hooks for hidden technologies to be embedded in them. DOC etc. were dropped in favour of DOCX etc. hence the deprecation. In reality it is safer at this period in time to use DOC as both 2007 and 2010 use a version of DOCX authored by Microsoft before the Standardisation process was innitiated, a prerelease version which itself was deprecated by the ISO process. -- Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
