At Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:17:13 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yep, as well as .xlsx
But, I mean, you know all the *pressing* and Important reasons that M$ had to change the file format....
FWIW, the new formats are XML based, albeit compressed. in most theories, this is a good idea for portability.
the old file formats were proprietary, complex and full of ugliness from 20 years of extensions and variations (.DOC was used by MS Word for MSDOS circa 1985). Yes, I know, MS did their own XML 'open' document format, not the one everyone else is using, but at least being XML, its readily decodable.
The new format is still semi-proprietary. Using XML and ZIP does not automagically make the format open. If the *meaning* of the XML tags are not documented, it is not possible to decode the XML file:
<f><g q="t">Hello</g><r x="96"/><g q="t">World</g><y z="3.14159"/></f>
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