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Thursday, October 24, 2002

Office 11 and XML -- 9:48 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I'm known for bashing Microsoft when they need a good bashing, but here I believe they have a genuinely good idea. MS Office 11 will use XML. I'm not sure if that will be its default mode or with there will be some version of the DOC format as default. At any rate, one of the inventors of XML, Tim Bray, made some comments on MS's decision. He loves it. Here's a snip:

"So it seems to me," he concludes, in delightfully prophetic mode, "that when the huge universe of MS Office documents becomes available for processing by any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence, all sorts of wonderful new things can be invented that you and I can't imagine."

If documents produced by the new Office are really that open, it will be a mammoth leap forward. Here's to hoping that it really is true! Thanks Slashdot.

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