I've heard it discussed elsewhere that even if they "open" the xml schema thingy, it'll still have large chunks of proprietary binary data embedded in the files.
On 29/11/05, dave wrote: > Just read tonight an article in the Computerworld where MS are going to put > their document formats up for ISO recognition (due to the Massachusetts city > council saying they want their documents to be based on open standards). > > thus the formats of documents will be much more open a other developers wil be > able to create and access these with less problems than in the past. And > maybe this will see true compatibility with MS document formats with open > office in the future. > > Me thinks that open/free standards have just won another battle against the > monolith. > > And well really it could reduce reliance on the MS office suite too for small > medium business. > -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
