Re: [users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-09 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 09 June 2005 3:39 pm, Ivo Vegter wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:01 am, Robin Laing wrote: > >>Ivo Vegter wrote: > >>>With any luck, it will interoperate better with OOo. Even if it does > >>>embrace and break^Wextend the standard, you can't hide much in X

Re: [users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-09 Thread Ivo Vegter
Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:01 am, Robin Laing wrote: > >>Ivo Vegter wrote: >> >>>With any luck, it will interoperate better with OOo. Even if it does >>>embrace and break^Wextend the standard, you can't hide much in XML. >> >>This has been recently discussed. MS has actu

Re: [users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-09 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:01 am, Robin Laing wrote: > Ivo Vegter wrote: > > Duncan Lithgow wrote: > >>Pete Holsberg wrote: > New Microsoft Office Open XML formats will be the default > in the next versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. > >> > >>erm, yes. So? > > > > With any luck, it wi

Re: [users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-09 Thread Robin Laing
Ivo Vegter wrote: Duncan Lithgow wrote: Pete Holsberg wrote: New Microsoft Office Open XML formats will be the default in the next versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. erm, yes. So? With any luck, it will interoperate better with OOo. Even if it does embrace and break^Wextend the st

RE: [users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Buff
Ivo Vegter wrote: > Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > Pete Holsberg wrote: > > > >>>New Microsoft Office Open XML formats will be the default > >>>in the next versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. > > > > erm, yes. So? > > With any luck, it will interoperate better with OOo. Even if it does > embrace

Re: [users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-08 Thread Ivo Vegter
Duncan Lithgow wrote: > Pete Holsberg wrote: > >>>New Microsoft Office Open XML formats will be the default >>>in the next versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. > > erm, yes. So? With any luck, it will interoperate better with OOo. Even if it does embrace and break^Wextend the standard, you c

Re: [users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-08 Thread Duncan Lithgow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete Holsberg wrote: > New Microsoft Office Open XML formats will be the default > in the next versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. erm, yes. So? Duncan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedo

[users] Microsoft To Make XML the Default in Next Office

2005-06-08 Thread Pete Holsberg
New Microsoft Office Open XML formats will be the default in the next versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Yardena Arar, PC World Wednesday, June 01, 2005 New XML-based file formats will be the defaults for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents in the next version of Microsoft's market-domina