• From: "Julian Reschke" <reschke@m...>
• To: "Andrew Layman" <andrewl@m...>, "Xml-Dev Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 22:18:53 +0200

> From: owner-xml-dev@x... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@x...]On Behalf Of
> Andrew Layman
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 9:55 PM
> To: Xml-Dev Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Washington Post column on Ballmer
>
>
> > > In today's Washington Post ...
>
> > >   Ballmer hopes to build Microsoft's new identity partly around a
> > >   computing language known as XML. Invented several years ago by two
> > >   Microsoft technologists,
>
> I've checked.  Ballmer never said that.  He merely stressed Microsoft's
> early support for XML.  The reporter is not a technical guy and he made a
> mistake.

I think it would be good for Microsoft's reputation if Steve Ballmer would
have Washington Post clarify this :-)


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