This afternoon I was having some fun (not!) reviewing some third party license agreements, when someone emailed me a couple of Excel spreadsheets saying "Hey Minollo! I have these two spreadsheets; one has a list of all employees since 1990 in Progress Corporation...
When I was working on an XML database in the late nineties, I remember hearing a lot of noise about the fact that — finally! — XML would allow for real reuse and collaboration when working with applications like word processors and spreadsheet editors. Copy like "Data is finally disjoint from format;...