>I'm working with the Office Tools group on some things with the new XML editor that will help in developing WordML (new XML schema type for Word 2003 documents). It is very cool that Word can now save and open XML files directly, no import/export or .DOC binary files needed which eliminates the need for OLE automation or even from having to have Word to create a Word document.

Cool, but this would only be practical for short documents, correct? Intuitively, long documents or possibly even short ones with lots of formatting, etc. would explode file sizes, right?

When is Word2003 scheduled for release?

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