Re: [office] Microsoft Office 12 XML Format

[Lars Oppermann <Lars.Oppermann@Sun.COM>]

Hi Duane,

there has been a lot of talks on why they chose to duplicate the 
OpenDocuemnt design but building their own format on top of it.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Research/?p=202&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
includes some pointers that might be worth looking into; i.e.
http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000732.html

Bests
~Lars

Duane Nickull wrote:
> I just became aware of Microsoft's paper espousing a similar style of 
> xml documents as this group.
> 
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/3/D/E3DD6FED-0CC1-4788-A742-E1596179AE65/FileFormatsPreview.doc 
> 
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/3/7437e747-aeaf-4419-8181-7307bae89db4/XMLFileFormatsGuide.doc 
> 
> 
> More:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx
> 
> Does anyone have knowledge of how similar this is to the work of this TC?
> 
> Duane
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