Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format 369
eschasi writes "Groklaw has an article up
reporting that Microsoft
is going to open up their XML representation of the DOC format in response to Massachusetts' demand for
open formats. According to Groklaw there are some interesting caveats involved in the move. From the license: 'We are acknowledging that end users who merely open and read government documents that are saved as Office XML files within software programs will not violate the license'. While opening up the format even partially is a good idea, it's still a far cry from folks being able to write programs that create DOC-compatible files."
Hey thanks (Score:0, Funny)
for opening up a file format (XML) that was already open, wasnt that the whole idea of XML in the first place ?
Proprietary XML? (Score:5, Funny)
What Open (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Proprietary XML? (Score:5, Funny)
Small typos like that get passed around in memos and next thing you know, you have patents for numerous things.
Re:What Open (Score:2, Funny)
now if i could only find that old copy of microsoft bob...
Re:Off-Topic but curious (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Are other companies doing this? (Score:1, Funny)
I would rather spend my money on, I dunno, savings accounts or IRA contributions...
Giving money to the IRA is almost as bad as giving it to MS. Violence is not a good way to free Northern Ireland.
Toilets (Score:5, Funny)
Toilets. I believe toilets are as ubiquitous as Microsoft Word.
Re:Not enough - write Mass. Govt.! (Score:5, Funny)
How about, you handle the grammar and I handle the, Spelling. "OK"
Re:Toilets (Score:5, Funny)
Toilets: Total cost of ownership (Score:3, Funny)
I agree with your assessment of toilet seats being cheaper than Microsoft seat licenses but shouldn't we wait until Microsoft releases a study on the total cost of ownership between toilets and Microsoft Office?
Re:Hey thanks (Score:2, Funny)
It's also to force people to migrate from text files and commandlines to full blown GUIs by turning simple stuff like:
to (That's me trying to format it nicely, btw.)Opens? (Score:1, Funny)
Not very useful, and not very interesting.
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That's hardly a fair compairson. (Score:1, Funny)