[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 02-01-2010 20:52, JF Mezei wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.
>
> Do they still do that ?

Yes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1CD6ACF9-CE06-4E1C-8DCF-F33F669DBC3A&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

> They came out with some funky new word format (pretends to be XML, but
> it is unreadable binary junk). To read one such document, I had to
> download some converter from Microsoft which would then create a new
> file which could be read.

OOXML is XML.

Complex XML, but valid XML. And absolutely text.

But but but - did you unzip the container before
looking at it??

Arne