Q&A: Microsoft XML architect Jean Paoli
InternetNews | at | by Mike
This summer, Microsoft will release Office 2003, a core component of the company's XML strategy that will serve as the user interface for end-users' interaction with XML. Jean Paoli, Microsoft's XML Architect and one of the co-creators of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML 1.0 standard, sat down with internetnews.com to discuss XML and Microsoft's vision for Office 2003.
Paoli, one of the leaders of the SGML community before that technology evolved into XML, joined Microsoft in 1996 after serving as technical director of GRIF S.A., a leader in the creation of SGML authoring tools. Once at Microsoft, Paoli jump-started the company's XML activity by creating and managing the team that delivered the software that XML-enabled both Internet Explorer and the Windows operating system. With a specialty in building end-user markup editing tools, Paoli is now a member of Microsoft's Office team.