Office 2003 Beta

[DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought it would be worthwhile to post this latest word (from slashdot) 
about Office 2003/XP-XML

Posted by michael on Thursday March 13, @11:46AM
from the just-what-you-expected dept.
zachlipton writes "Internet World is reporting that initial reports from 
Office 2003 beta testers don't look good for those hoping to share 
documents with non-MS systems using the XML file format. Gary Edwards, the 
OpenOffice.org representative for the OASIS XML file-format group is quoted 
as saying "although it's still early in the review process, it does look as 
though XP XML has been so seriously crippled as to be useless to anyone but 
the big content management and collaboration system providers." Apparently, 
all formatting and presentation information is removed from the XML. 
Furthermore, Office's new collaboration features will only work with users 
who are also running Office 2003 (requiring Windows 2000 or 2003) that are 
connecting over XP servers." So Microsoft will continue its efforts to 
lock-in users with proprietary formats, and hopefully the rest of the world 
will produce an XML standard document format without them.


FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
DW Emory <danemory@globalcrossing.net>


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