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Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)

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From: pdohert
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:00

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Phil wrote:
> 
> Decklin Foster wrote:
> 
> >Hmm. Microsoft says (whatever than means) that they're going to use
> >XML in Office 2000. (So sue me, I was stuck in a waiting room today
> >with nothing but "industry" rags and Newsweek.) A certain statement
> >caught my eye...
>
> XML should make _everybody's_ life easier. In theory.
> 
> Phil
> --
> "Volume! Clarity! Bass! We must have bass!
> What's wrong with us? Are we goddamn old ladies?"

Nice Hunter quote there...  glad they finally made it into a movie!

I am a beta tester of Office 2000 (at beta 1 currently) and it does have
XML support and it looks like it *will* make things easier for all
considered.


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Paul Doherty
Systems Analyst/Programmer
CNA/CNE/MCP+I/MCSE

http://www.dfw.net/~pdoherty

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Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
Date: 1998/10/15
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