RE: Office 2003 Beta

[DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:20 PM 3/22/03 +0100, Moritz Berger wrote:

>You're overlooking that Microsoft (together with IBM) is THE major force
>behind almost all XML standards! So, are you suggesting they're trying to
>somehow cheat themselves by not using the results of their own work and
>massive investments?

You are naive when you state that Microsoft is a "major force" behind XML 
standards.
It has been a major force behind corrupting international standards
in the case of HTML, and Java. You are naive if you believe it isn't trying 
to do the
same thing with XML.

My original message on this thread stated that:

>The complete article describing what Microsoft is doing with XML can be 
>found at the following URL
>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2109101
>Judge for yourself whether you think Microsoft is trying to do what it 
>always does--corrupting non-microsoft standards so you have to use 
>Microsoft platforms and software.

Internet News is a reliable source of information, and in this case it was 
reporting
the preliminary findings of a number of  Beta testers. Which do you prefer to
believe, the analyses of Beta testers, or the marketing fluff from Microsoft?


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


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