RE: [SLUG] Cancell My Visit To The WP Office 2000 Pres.

["Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>]

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> Thats one of the major reasons why I don't use Star Office or Corel. At
> least Applix Ware's format is XML (I am told) which will still be
> readable in 10 years time.
> The advantage of a markup format such as LaTeX, XML, lout, Troff etc is
> that your documents can always be read either by a person or by machine
> so long as you can physically read the media.
> LaTeX docs from the late 1970's can still be read today.
>
> With the advent of XML there is the hope that in several years time
> proprietary binary formats will disappear and all comapnies/orgs etc can
> have their own WP formats in an XML markup
>

It is rumored that the next version of M$ Office will have the option to
write everything out in XML.


-- Aravind

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