Given its size, government could, in theory, demand non-proprietary standards for office documents, thus significantly weakening the grip of commercially dictated formats. Post a Reader Comment and share your views or email Martin at his address...
He also noted that text-to-speech applications would not work with the Reader software, and that putting the files in alternative formats could aid readers with disabilities. The release is the latest in a string of reports of supposedly secure...
Since then, Microsoft has invested heavily in digital book designs, beefing up its reader software and creating new portable computing platforms such as the PocketPC and TabletPC, aimed squarely at augmenting traditional printed media formats.
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He applauds the results and regrets the restrictions that are now imposed. He further proposes that information such as file formats be made public, citing Microsoft Word as an example. One effective way to stimulate rivals would be to publish a...
Document formats have become an increasingly high-profile issue in the past two years. Microsoft is in the process of gaining ISO standardisation for the document formats in the latest version of Office.