Microsoft Office 12 Pushes XML Technology

This article talks about all kind of XML usage predictions. It looks that in a couple of years the XML document format will be the dominant format. Most of the tools will base their technology on XML.

Don’t know what XML is? It is time to learn ...

http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/43534.html

... and here are some issues raised by eWeek on how "open" and "standard" will be the XML technology pushed by Microsoft and how much room for "third-party" opportunities there will be:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823221,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000610