Microsoft came up with a alternative to XML, OOXML. The main idea of OOXML is to streamline compatibility in offices that use different file formats and OOXML's are more secure(says Microsoft). However, after sending it to a standards committee to announce it as a standard for XML use, it has seen many bumps. At the moment, it looks like it will fall on deaf ears until they can appease our friends overseas.
mSeliga
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Well... don't get too excited about Microsoft getting denied something.
Office 2007, by default, saves everything in an xml derivative of the original binary formats.
Excel is now .xlsx, Word is .docx, etc.
The binary files were never all that secure (what did the apps have - a password that could be broken with $5 software?)
I think xml is a much better format and if Microsoft has figured out a way to streamline it to more apps - more power to them.
Overseas money aside, they will continue to sell and perfect their technology in this country just like always.
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