On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:21, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnofftalk/ >html/office12092002.asp
Office 97 released 1997. Office 99 released 1999. Office 11 released 2011?? The main drive for changing the format is to generate revenue. "My business contacts has the new Office, and I can't open their documents, I need to upgrade..." However, the change to XML can be the downfall for the never-ending upgrade-cycle forced upon Office-users, as small tools on the net will make back-conversions.... The second assault will come from OSS projects, which now will have a clean view into the formats, and should be able to reproduce Office documents much better than is currently the case. UNFORTUNATELY, I think (hope not) some tags will contain crucial data in some arcaic binary format, only useful to COM services in the OS. Long live the XML revolution. Niclas
