web kracked wrote: > > > Their idea of bigger is better might have inspired their legecy > ideas that their Open XML formats would be able to do > everything that all of their older formats could do > "exactly" the way the older formats saved and "displayed" > the file's information. That is why Open XML is over 6,000 > pages of specification where ODF is about 600 pages. > > sorry to go off topic, but I needed to vent some "rage" > over MS's defeat spun into a "world exceptance". One thing I've never been able to understand, is why an entirely new file format has to carry around all that old bagage, especially the likes of that Excel leap year bug. Those older apps don't need MSXML, they read their formats just fine. What MS should be doing, is creating a converter utility that will convert all those old formats into the new standard, instead of forcing everyone else do develop, without proper documentation, apps that can work with those old file formats.
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