In news:0025ac7c-b190-4581-921f-c165bb6c28e2@t...,
JimboCat <103134.3516@c...> typed:
> On May 15, 4:17 pm, Joe Kesselman <keshlam.cat.nos...@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>>> My main gripe against XML is that it's so verbose. In this
>>> particular application, tags and antitags take up more than ten
>>> times as much space as the actual data being sent. CSV was *so*
>>> much more compact.
>>
>> XML's verbosity is part of what's made it rapidly accepted -- it's
>> easy to debug.
>>
>> On the other hand, XML has never claimed to be the right answer for
>> all tasks.
>
> Microsoft, on the other hand, has effectively claimed so. Well, maybe
> not *all* tasks. But my new computer at work has Office 2007. Not only
> do I hate the new user-interfaces, but it turns out the new file
> format is . . .
>
> wait for it . . .
>
> a zip file full of XML docs.
>
> Features were lost in the transformation. At least I think so: with
> the new user-interface I can't find half the features I used to use
> daily.
>

Others feel the same. If you are that bothered, you may be interested in:
http://www.addintools.com/english/menuword/

-- 
Ray
UK