There's XML and then there's Microsoft XML, and in future Office produces there will be Microsoft XML and user-defined 'arbitrary' XML that can be read by some, but not all, versions of Microsoft Office. Despite what Microsoft may say about its support for open standards, the reality is that the Redmond software company weaves its own proprietary, locked-in flavour, condemning its many users to data purgatory. " We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's."
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