____/ Linonut on Monday 04 February 2008 17:39 : \____
> * Kelsey Bjarnason peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:06:42 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>> In article <fnpkhh$2hf$02$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Peter Kohlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Please list the companies which have implemented it *fully* Like
>>>> "render Text like Word97 does" or other idiotic "standards" which are
>>>> defined nowhere outside of MS
>>>
>>> Learn what "deprecated" means.
>>
>> It means it *does* exist in *this* version of the standard, but won't in
>> later versions, so for an implementation to conform to this standard, it
>> must include the deprecated features.
>>
>> So where does one get the specifics on how "render text like Word97 does"
>> works?
>
> As Kumar Coder at Microsoft. He's the only one who really knows.
>
> Job security!
Microsoft recently said (very tactlessly, no doubt) that it's business is based
on being able to control the standard (they meant 'standard', as in closed
format).
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