This presentation will focus on four key areas:

The original vision of XML and the importance of enabling end users to use their own custom-defined schemas in their documents.

The significant XML investments made in "Office 11" to help achieve this vision.

The technical architecture adopted to enable Word, Excel, XDocs, Access and the FrontPage(R) Web site creation and management tool to work with any customer-defined schemas.

How the paradigm for the Office family of products has evolved to enable customers to use the data defined by their own schemas, enabling better integration with XML Web Services.