On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:05:28PM -0400, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The whole "all the world runs Microsoft Office" perception is a problem, but
> that is a different sort of problem. There already are open format
> alternatives; it is just getting people to use them is hard.
I had read (source unknown, but I think it was a ZD pub) that the
next (?) version of MS Windows will move heavily to XML. It is my
recollection that the Windows registry and MS Office file formats will
move to XML. I wonder what this will do for interoperability?
--
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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