Star ODF, Net Apps, Netbooks Will Invigorate the OS Landscape
Linked by David Adams on Tue 12th May 2009 15:03 UTC
Web 2.0 This week I received a triumphal press release from the Open Document Foundation, announcing that the just-released Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 has native support for the ODF (Open Document Format) file format. This makes the latest MS Office "the last major office suite to support ODF." This set me to thinking about how movement and advancement in several areas of technology and interoperability may well invigorate the alternative OS world.
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Moocha
Member since:
2005-07-06

Example:

> The rise of XML as a lingua-franca for inter-machine communication has enabled the internet as we know it

... what?

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fretinator Member since:
2005-07-06

html -> xhtml -> xml -> sgml

I would say that mark-up languages in general, used in web pages as well as web-services, have enabled the web as we know it. I think that is the point.

Otherwise, we might still be gophering .txt files!

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Lennie Member since:
2007-09-22

XML, HTML, SVG, JSON, WDSL, SOAP, XML-RPC is just text, let's be honest. And let's keep it that way. Text does work quiet well, it's fairly simple and efficient in most incarnations. You can compress it pretty good when needed.

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Moocha Member since:
2005-07-06

Nono, David Adams was definitely talking about XML - read the quote in context. And even in context it's complete BS.

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