User 163634

Sun, IBM Continue Open Standards Double-Speak

Formats are the key to just about everything. Two factors; 1. data has to live, by law in the US, for 20 years in many cases. I would like to see the author or anyone else open a document written in Word or Excel 20 years ago. 2. Finding information is based on metadata, or data tags. Microsoft has locked out the ability to search and find information in any of their formats. That means only MS can search and find MS. This makes using things like Google and Ask or anything else much less effective.

So, format is king for being able to retrieve information in the future not to mention find it.