[ale] News bulletin: The temperature seems to be cooling down in Hell!!!

[Randal Jarrett K4RSJ]

Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats	

	
Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 02, @09:41AM
from the xml-is-my-friend dept.
RzUpAnmsCwrds writes "According to an MSDN Channel 9 interview with an
Office file-format developer, the next version of Microsoft Office
(Office 12) will default to newly-developed XML file formats in Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint. The new formats will apparently include XML files
along with other files (images, etc) inside of a Zip file. Microsoft
will also be providing extensive documentation of the new format to the
public through MSDN. The developer likewise announced that Microsoft
would be releasing updates for Office 2000, XP, and 2003 to read and
write the new formats when the new version of Office is released. If
this interview is correct, it could mean the beginning of the end of
Microsoft's proprietary file formats." Coverage at Beta News,
Information Week, and the Washington Post.



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