Jean Paoli of Microsoft wrote, with respect to certain misimpressions likely to be conveyed in John Gartner's article on XML:
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:12:04 -0800 Resent-from: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org From: Jean Paoli <jeanpa@microsoft.com> > John Gartner's article in TechWeb: > A TechWeb reporter issued today an article on CDF & XML. http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?WIR1997031806 He said wrongly (I am quoting him twice): > "Microsoft had formally submitted a proposal for the Extensible Markup > Language (XML) to the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) on March 9, > which > seeks to open the Web to a plethora of custom-formatted information." > "Two Java-based XML viewers are available" This is bad and wrong. This article has a lot of mistakes and the reporter overstated a lot what Thomas Reardon was telling him. We are correcting this with him. Microsoft -and me personnally- apologize if this article implies as if Microsoft owns XML. This is not our not our intention and is obviously not true. The press has yet obviously a lot to learn about XML. I am also going to ask the XML ERB to help me correct this. -Jean Paoli