Though, see the last paragraph: "Although XML is an established open standard driven by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), Microsoft is introducing its own flavour of the specifications under a royalty free licence." So this looks like more of an embrace and extend move than a genuine more towards interop from MS. - Steve On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:48:54AM -0400, M P Smoak wrote: > > How's this relate to open audio? I know lot's of linux app's now use xml > for config files. Now office app's will have xml data files. I find this > real interesting. > > quote from BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4603539.stm > > Microsoft adopts web file styles > Microsoft is putting a key web technology at the heart of its most popular programs. > > By late 2006 all the files created by users of its Office suite of software will be > formatted with web-centred XML specifications. > > The decision marks a big change to Microsoft's existing proprietary file formats > that can be hard to work with. > > Microsoft said the changes should make it much easier for companies to do more > business via the web. > > endquote > > Marv > > >
