Well, some information is starting to come out about the next office system. We announced the other day that Steve Ballmer stated that they were moving away from the traditional binary structures of Office Files. Office 2003 provided us with the ability to save files in XML format and actually edit them from within the office application that created the file while retaining an “xml” file extension. (Office XP had limited capabilities on this front.) There is a problem with this. The way that they had done it before was a great first try. (It wasn’t even possible before.) In Office 12, file extensions are changing yet again. They are going to start to add an “x” to the end of each file. So now, instead of “.doc” it will be “.docx”. “So what,” you say? Who cares? Let me elaborate…
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