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Microsoft anoints XML as Office 12 format
By Alun Williams
Posted on 2 Jun 2005 at 13:13
But what of legacy data, all those .doc files? Microsoft is promising full backward compatibility with the versions of Microsoft Office that most people are already using: Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003. Similarly, the current .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary file formats will be fully compatible with 'Office 12' systems.
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