quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5146581.htmlMS has announced that they will use XML, an open standard, as their office document format. Well this poses a problem for MS because they depend on the office format for lock-in. The solution: patent the method of acessing and modifying XML based documents in a 3rd party word processor... Yes, they are applying for a patent on accessing the XML documents with non MS software...