• From: Matt Sergeant <matt@s...>
• To: Cedric ROUVRAIS <crouvrais@o...>
• Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:23:29 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Cedric ROUVRAIS wrote:

>     * microsoft office products are going xml. apparently some poeple can
> open xml documents with excel. which isn't far fetched if u consider the DNA
> products that are profiling.

This is not as big a deal as it sounds. All office products are going XML,
some already have. Check out http://www.openoffice.org for example.
Now if Microsoft joined the openoffice effort to define _standard_ office
formats in XML, then *that* would be a big deal. But I don't see that
happening without consumer pressure to do so.

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