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Article #1054Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
From: Decklin Foster
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
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nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) writes: > >Rubbish. It would be quite easy to devise a format that allows > >new features to be added, but still lets old software read the new > >files, igniring new features where necessary. In fast Microsoft has > >such a format, it is called rtf. > > HTML being one such, SGML being a more-generic solution... 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... "Lotus is going to wait until Microsoft creates XML-based standards before jumping in. However, this depends on whether or not Microsoft choosed to make the DTDs public." I doubt they can really keep us from just looking at data files, but it begs the question of if XML should make things easier for content, or for vendors... -- please read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ "cry me a bayou/and i'm leaving..." -tricky
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: Decklin Foster <decklin@base.org> 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: 1998/10/13 Message-ID: <m3k924cd2b.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 400781513 Sender: decklin@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com References: <907103252snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <OtvFDIAmbgE2Ewio@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <ys4stod03w.fsf_-_@tulyar.sdd.cegelecproj.co.uk> <6v19t4$ksh$1@gidora.zeta.org.au> <3614A281.3011@nym.sc.philips.com.nospam> <362110c7.23159181@news.concentric.net> <908142041snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <6vuemp$e8t$1@gidora.zeta.org.au> Organization: @Home Network X-URL: http://decklin.base.org/ NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:28:45 PDT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss