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With the advent of Office 2003, Microsoft began releasing royalty-free XML schemas for Office document formats. Today, Visio joins Word, Excel, and InfoPath on the list of Office apps with quasi-public XML file formats. These newly opened schemas are a boon for Microsoft partners, firms with custom integration needs, and monopoly-averse markets, but are still a long way from what the open source community would call "open" standards.

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