MS is moving all thier office file types to XML

Post by **Cool Blue** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:30 pm

Interesting. On the developement side this will be awesome. :icon14:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/02/technol ... tm?cnn=yes

Post by **Dave** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:31 pm

Great, we've been hearing about Office and XML for the last 5 years

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:32 pm

and itll prolly work as great as office recognizing html

Post by **Cool Blue** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:35 pm

Dave wrote:Great, we've been hearing about Office and XML for the last 5 years

We have?

Post by **Dave** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:36 pm

Everytime a new version of Office comes out, it comes with a new XML gimmick

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:43 pm

MKJ wrote:and itll prolly work as great as office recognizing html

It'll probably work a tad better than that.

Post by **Cool Blue** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:09 pm

Dave wrote:Everytime a new version of Office comes out, it comes with a new XML gimmick

Tru, but what software doesn't? XML is becoming widely used for many good reasons.

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:30 pm

MKJ wrote:and itll prolly work as great as office recognizing html

Seems to work well in Offfice 2003.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:38 pm

Surely this will mean its even easier for other companies to create programs that mimic office then? (If they can read the files in plain-text)

Post by **Cool Blue** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:56 pm

Importing and exporting will be far easier.

This is really unusual for MS to do something like this. This will make it easier for people to use competing products; and THAT is not part of the MS business philosophy.

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:02 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Surely this will mean its even easier for other companies to create programs that mimic office then? (If they can read the files in plain-text)

Exactly. Its about (finally) focusing more on open standards.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:12 pm

But less people would buy the MS stuff then, seems a stupid thing to do to me.

Post by **Pext** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:17 pm

hm... word is crap. the only usefull thing is excel imho. maybe access...

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:27 pm

Cool Blue wrote:Importing and exporting will be far easier.

This is really unusual for MS to do something like this. This will make it easier for people to use competing products; and THAT is not part of the MS business philosophy.

They submitted C# and the CLI (I think) to standards bodies, they're doing this stuff a bit more frequently.

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:05 am

PhoeniX wrote:Surely this will mean its even easier for other companies to create programs that mimic office then? (If they can read the files in plain-text)

Open Office?

Post by **Dave** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:00 am

Pext wrote:hm... word is crap. the only usefull thing is excel imho. maybe access...

oh bullshit... lets see your effort then

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:01 am

Tormentius wrote:
MKJ wrote:and itll prolly work as great as office recognizing html
Seems to work well in Offfice 2003.

oh please

Post by **Grudge** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:26 am

I make all my websites in Word.

(no I don't)

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:08 pm

MKJ wrote:
Tormentius wrote:
MKJ wrote:and itll prolly work as great as office recognizing html
Seems to work well in Offfice 2003.

oh please

Care to clarify that?

Post by **Cool Blue** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:02 pm

I love Tormentius.

If Microsoft made a cereal, he'd eat it everyday. :P

Post by **Tormentius** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:16 am

Cool Blue wrote:I love Tormentius. If Microsoft made a cereal, he'd eat it everyday. :P

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of great companies that make some really innovative products. I just happen to like (most of) Microsoft's products because they make my job easier which means more time at the pub or beach :icon25: