XML Support In Office 2003 Isn't For Everyone

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Posted by timothy on Sunday April 13, 2003 @04:59PM from the market-will-bear-a-lot dept.

0x0d0a writes "Unfortunately, it seems that Microsoft's recent campaign to promote Office 2003 based on its XML support may be a bit misleading. Only the Enterprise and Professional releases will have this support -- not Standard. Microsoft will still be leveraging file format compatibility for at least another Office release."

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Propoganda (Score:4, Funny)

by ahkbarr ( 259594 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:02PM (#5723000)

This is not reliable source! This is US led propoganda campaign!

Seriously, though, who here could not have predicted this?

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In other fast breaking news.... (Score:5, Funny)

by ralphart ( 70342 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:05PM (#5723013)

The sun rose this morning; sunset predicted for later today!

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Office 2003 Beta (Score:3, Funny)

by bamberg29 ( 240460 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:10PM (#5723035)

I've been using Office 2003 Beta 2 for about a month now and the XML support seems fairly poor. I've saved some of my Word documents in XML format and tried opening them in some other XML supported programs , but had a hard time opening them. I guess MS needs to work some more on the XML support in Office.

David

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In related news ... (Score:5, Funny)

by DogIsMyCoprocessor ( 642655 ) writes: <dogismycoprocessor&yahoo,com> on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:14PM (#5723043) Homepage

Microsoft announced that only the Enterprise and Professional versions of Office 2003 would support the feature of saving files to industry-standard media such as IDE and SCSI hard disks. The Standard version of Office 2003 will allow the user to save document files only to Microsoft Zippo (TM), a new proprietary USB-based external removable media device. "We believe this is an innovative way to provide extra value to our customers." said Microsoft spokesman Hugh Jass.

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Oh Come On (Score:3, Funny)

by Snowspinner ( 627098 ) writes: <`ude.lfu' `ta' `dnaslihp'> on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:20PM (#5723071) Homepage

The reason you don't have all versions of Office be identical is that then you wouldn't need different versions. The Standard versions of programs contain fewer features than the Professional and other shiny versions. This is to help justify charging more for the professional versions. This is not unreasonable. As with much of capitalism, paying more gets you more. Jesus, some days I think MS could liquidate and give all their money to the EFF and still get flamed by you people.

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Now the big question.... (Score:5, Funny)

by neurostar ( 578917 ) writes: <neurostar@NosPAM.privon.com> on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:21PM (#5723074)

Swimming with a very big shark is always guaranteed to be interesting, not necessarily good or bad. This is just throwing a few drops of blood in the water to spice things up.

...do penguins eat sharks?

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First rule of running a software business (Score:5, Funny)

by littleRedFriend ( 456491 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:29PM (#5723124)

Develop once, sell many times...

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And to paraphrase George Carlin... (Score:3, Funny)

by Eric_Cartman_South_P ( 594330 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:32PM (#5723139)

Tonight plenty of darkness, and tomorrow morning scattered light!

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2 xml or not 2 xml, that is the question ... (Score:5, Funny)

by 2TecTom ( 311314 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:33PM (#5723144) Homepage Journal

lemme see ...

there's MS Java, then there's the other version
there's MS HTML, then there's the other version
there's MS VC++, then there's the other version
there's MS OS's then there's the other OS ...

same ol same ol ... see Bill, see Bill emulate.

Nope, nuthin new here folks, move along ... ;)

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New Microsoft Position (Score:5, Funny)

by Bob9113 ( 14996 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @05:57PM (#5723253) Homepage

Microsoft's Leach emphasized that this change in positioning doesn't negate that "customer-defined XML schema support is a feature of Pro." On the other hand...

Cool, they've actually appointed a corporate leach. Perhaps that explains why MS Office came out with XML support after it was released in OpenOffice.

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Re:Propoganda (Score:5, Funny)

by superyooser ( 100462 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @06:03PM (#5723279) Homepage Journal

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information:
"I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad."
Mohsen Khalil, Iraqi Ambassador to the Arab League:
"Iraq will not be defeated. Iraq has now already achieved victory - apart from some technicalities."
Jean Paoli, Microsoft's XML architect:
"I'm out of the business of creating formats. Our focus on Office is on data exchange. There is no more difference between documents and data."
... apart from some.. err umm "technicalities"?

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Re:Chant the mantra, brethren (Score:3, Funny)

by TeknoHog ( 164938 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @06:09PM (#5723298) Homepage Journal

> Sorry for all the double-quoted words. :)
"layout" *tick*
"middle-ground" *tick"
"interoperability" *tick*
"XML" *tick*
"Corporate Resume" *tick*

BINGO! [everything2.org]

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Atleast (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @06:20PM (#5723336)

Atleast Enterprise/Professional/Standard all support my pirating habit equally.

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OMG....! (Score:3, Funny)

by IWannaBeAnAC ( 653701 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @07:00PM (#5723590)

What is RMS going to do when he finds out MS has named "Rights Management Services" after him?
Is it possible this was deliberate?

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I love this quote... (Score:4, Funny)

by 26199 ( 577806 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @07:15PM (#5723682) Homepage

"By only having this in the Pro version, customers who don't want this aren't paying for it."

I wonder how much more Microsoft would be forced to charge for Office with XML support? It's truly good of them to try and save us money this way...

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Re:Office 2003 Beta (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @08:06PM (#5723964)

Wasn't the Office tag format supposed to be

<data>
afl3iuao3fa#FA(U#F#(UFWLIJFwlkfjaw3f
</ data>

?

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Re:OMG....! (Score:3, Funny)

by Larthallor ( 623891 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @08:07PM (#5723971)

Insist they call it GNU/Microsoft Rights Management Services, of course.

What? You didn't see that coming? :)

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depends on one factor... (Score:2, Funny)

by morgajel ( 568462 ) writes: on Sunday April 13, 2003 @08:30PM (#5724087)

do the sharks have laser beams on their foreheads?

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In other news... (Score:2, Funny)

by brundlefly ( 189430 ) writes: on Monday April 14, 2003 @01:38AM (#5725835)

Microsoft seeks to make money off their own technology. News at Eleven.

Big deal. Grow up.

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XML Support In Office 2003 Isn't For Everyone

Propoganda (Score:4, Funny)

In other fast breaking news.... (Score:5, Funny)

Office 2003 Beta (Score:3, Funny)

In related news ... (Score:5, Funny)

Oh Come On (Score:3, Funny)

Now the big question.... (Score:5, Funny)

First rule of running a software business (Score:5, Funny)

And to paraphrase George Carlin... (Score:3, Funny)

2 xml or not 2 xml, that is the question ... (Score:5, Funny)

New Microsoft Position (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Propoganda (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Chant the mantra, brethren (Score:3, Funny)

Atleast (Score:1, Funny)

OMG....! (Score:3, Funny)

I love this quote... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Office 2003 Beta (Score:2, Funny)

Re:OMG....! (Score:3, Funny)

depends on one factor... (Score:2, Funny)

In other news... (Score:2, Funny)

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