Microsoft in standards battle with W3C

"Microsoft and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are at loggerheads over competing standards for electronic forms which help automate business processes. On Tuesday, Microsoft released InfoPath, its new XML-based application in Office 2003 allowing users to organise and share data. But the security of its signatures has been called into question on a W3C discussion forum.

The W3C recently released the specification for XForms 1.0, which allows the creation of interactive forms to help automate the exchange of corporate data. It is being backed by IBM and Sun Microsystems as a more open approach for heterogeneous environments that rely on interoperability."

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