Microsoft Office Open XML Formats: "We Already Got One" ------------------------------------------------------- [Contributed by Erwin Tenhumberg] "When asked why Microsoft did not use the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) OpenOffice.org XML file format, Paoli answered, "Sun standardized their own. We could have used a format from others and shoehorned in functionality, but our design needs to be different because we have 400 million legacy users. Moving 400 million users to XML is a complex problem.""
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