[sllug-members]: Evil Empire strikes back.

[rog]

>From a Yahoo news story.

Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML," the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet. XAML would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory against systems such as Linux, the group said.

It said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform. It governs the way a document is formatted and stored.
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