Powerpoint Bloat

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Evan wrote:

> Having a file in XML _enables_ it to be easily converted but doesn't
> guarantee that it can be.
> MS has for some time claimed to use XML file formats, however
> - they claim IP rights on the DTD
                                ^^^? What is this, please?

> - often the XML is simply used as a wrapper around untranslatable bags
> of binary

Bags o' Binary. What a great description of MS  file formats.

Peter

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