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Who says that American (companies) don't understand irony? (1 Comments) (link)
 Wednesday, 4-July-2007  23:22:11 (GMT +10) - by captainpotato

According to the BBC, Microsoft UK is helping the British National Archives defuse a "ticking time bomb". The time bomb is, of course, electronic file formats and the information stored in files using them. By using virtual machines to emulate older operating systems, documents saved using obsolete file formats will be accessible.

This follows the announcement that Massachusetts is likely to accept Microsoft's Office Open XML as an open file format standard.


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