Back in September, Jack Vaughan went out on a limb (or is that branch?) and predicted the eventual fading of XML, long the lingua franca of the Web services age. (See "XML on the wane? Say it isn't so ...
Earlier this week, Microsoft popped out a rather unexpected press release: "Microsoft Announces Availability of Open and Royalty-Free License for Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas". Read the press ...