Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> New Office file formats could cause headaches
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> | Microsoft has pledged to make its new Office 2007 file formats
> | accessible within the company's other products, but the timeline
> | for that support varies widely.
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> | Although the company already has converters available for older
> | PC versions of Office, the Mac translation tools are still in
> | development. Microsoft now doesn't expect to have the tools
> | available until late March or April, the company said Tuesday.
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> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6141121.html
I hear that M$ is using XML now, and "therefore" their file formats are
"open". But I also hear that M$ has tons of patents on their XML stuff.
Can anyone comment?
-Ramon
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