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[ILUG] Why didnt OS apps think of this first :->

[ILUG] Why didnt OS apps think of this first :->

John P. Looney valen at tuatha.org
Fri Jun 3 22:04:28 IST 2005


On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 06:35:21PM +0100, Robert Kiely mentioned:
> >Basically M$ have come up with a 'new' file format for office files.
> >They are going to use an XML based file format.
> >If only OpenOffice had thought of this first!
> 
> They DID !
> 
> >M$ are so far ahead of the competition that they actually seem to be
> >years behind!
> 
> It doesn't *seem* that M$ are behind... they ARE !

 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm for more information.

John

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