Microsoft has released the spec for WordprocessingML (WordML), SpreadsheetML (ExcelML) and FormTemplate Schemas (for InfoPath) to the world. Here’s another news story that I just don’t get. Microsoft has released the spec for “WordprocessingML” (WordML), SpreadsheetML (ExcelML) and FormTemplate Schemas (for InfoPath) to the world. Cool. But the stories! “Microsoft Pries Open Office 2003” says […]
Microsoft isn’t the only group that’s waving its dirty laundry in the wind. Last week I talked about the importance of stripping “hidden” information from Word documents before posting them on the Internet. I took you through a bunch of examples of docs on Microsoft’s own site that included detailed – in some cases potentially […]
Word hides important, personal information inside its documents. You can get rid of some of the information most of the time – but it’s very, very difficult to delete potentially embarrassing information all of the time. I’m astounded at how many people just don’t get it. Word hides important, personal information inside its documents. You […]
Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing private information in file headers which people would sometimes rather not share. The British government of Tony Blair just learned this lesson the hard way. A few weeks ago, Richard Smith – whom many of you will recall as a tireless defender of personal privacy – sent me […]
The “Arial Unicode MS” font – which is regarded by many as the ultimate Unicode font, containing virtually every character from every written language – disappeared from the Microsoft website in August 2002. Sometime in mid-August 2002, Microsoft removed a giant reference font from its Web site. The “Arial Unicode MS” font – which is […]
