Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 13, 2004 09:46 AM
OK: an attendee asked Matsuow about why Office 2003 will only export in a Microsoft-patented proprietary XML format instead of adhering to the open XML standard used by OpenOffice and others. Matsuow basically danced around the question, only saying that there were too many standards floating around in the software industry. He also mentioned that the MS XML format was royalty-free (at least for now). But he never answered the "why".
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
I was there. His answer was confusing.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 13, 2004 09:46 AM- <A HREF="http://www.silentblue.net/" TITLE="silentblue.net">quanta</a silentblue.net>
#