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[ale] Visio->Linux? (was: ALE NW meeting last night)
- Subject: [ale] Visio->Linux? (was: ALE NW meeting last night)
- From: ale at FultonGreen.com (Fulton Green)
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:46:01 -0500
Well, they're pushing towards XML the same way they pushed towards HTTP,
HTML and such. IIRC, one of the news articles suggested that they would be
keeping the DTDs for Office 11 to themselves. Still, given the choice
between re-engineering an XML format or a binary one, I'll take XML any
day.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:20:55PM -0700, Joe wrote:
> Wait... MicroSoft *pushing* an open standard??? That makes no
> sense. Oh, wait, I bet it'll be called "MS-XML", it will have subtle
> but infuriating incompatibilities with standard XML syntax, and all
> the DTDs will be top secret.
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