Old news to anyone in the know technology-wise, and old-hat to anti-Microsoft geeks and long-standing converts to open comms standards, but I think it’s significant that this story reaches mainstream news at the Beeb.
From 2006 ALL files generated by MS-Office products will be XML, not just optional, not just some. Oh for some meta-schematic structuring / patterning standards too, as well as file formatting. Yes I know – standards – so good, you can never have too many, but here’s hoping for sensible convergence to continue.