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As usual Microsoft can't win. If they make InfoPath and custom schemas
available in all versions of Office people complain that "it's bloatware"
and "we're paying for functionality we'll never use". If they don't they're
accused of making it inaccessible.
Joe
>From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
>To: AndrewWatt2000@aol.com
>CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: [xml-dev] One (jaundiced?) view of Microsoft's vision for XML
>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:41:42 -0400
>
>AndrewWatt2000@aol.com scripsit:
>
> > The fact that something you imagined might be available free will have
>to be
> > paid for doesn't, by any logic I can follow, make it "vapourware".
>
>"Vaporware" means "unavailable", not free. Nobody can buy InfoPath, and
>when it is available, it will not be available to ordinary retail customers
>(as of the latest information), only to large corporate customers who are
>renting their Microsoft software rather than buying it.
>
>Way back before the release of Windows 3.0, I once characterized it as
>"both real and vaporware at the same time".
>
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