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

[John Reagan]

"Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message 
news:7qjh5jFhiqU9 at mid.individual.net...
> In article <3dG3y6SMG7X8 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> In article <4b42901b$0$271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, 
>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>
>>> A .DOCX is a zip file containing a bunch of .XML files - nothing in
>>> the format is reusing .DOC format, but MS did carry all the
>>> functionality over though.
>>
>>    There is a .doc file inside that zip file, and it IS using the .doc
>>    format.
>
> I provided an example that disproves this.  Care to provide an example
> to support your claim?
>
> bill
>

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205.aspx

for a rather good description of the new XML based file formats.

John